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Top 50 Angel Investors in Nigeria

Last updated: Nov 2023 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Angel Investors in Nigeria

Investor	Nigeria investments
Idris Ayodeji Bello	11
Tayo Oviosu	7
Olugbenga Agboola	7
Olugbenga Agboola	7
Michael Seibel	6
Babs Ogundeyi	6
Olumide Soyombo	4
Prosper Otemuyiwa	4
Ham Serunjogi	4
Ed Robinson	3
Raffael Johnen	3
Justin Kan	3
Abdul Hassan	3
Yves Guillemot	3
Brandon Krieg	3
Kola Aina	3
Chris Adelsbach	3
Allen and Ollys International Limited -	3
Edmond Nonie	3
Youcef Es-skouri	2
Stephen Pagliuca	2
Wes Schwalje	2
Immad Akhund	2
Tyler Scriven	2
Shola Akinlade	2
Cristina Santin	2
Bunmi Akinyemiju	2
Sajid Rahman	2
Ayodeji Adewunmi	2
Ndubuisi Ekekwe	2
Gabriel Hammond	2
Isaac Ewaleifoh	2
Sahil Lavingia	2
Opeyemi Awoyemi	2
Gbite Oduneye	2
Sandeep Nailwal	2
Leonard Stiegeler	2
Walid Aradi	2
Ire Aderinokun	2
Karim Atiyeh	2
Oliver Jung	2
Bashar Hamood	2
Musty Mustapha	2
Dale Mathias	2
Samir Goel	1
Selma Ribica	1
Alan Rutledge	1
Yusuf Abdulmalik	1
Lanre Adelowo	1
Arash Ferdowsi	1

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The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
SimpliFi — SimpliFi is on a mission to democratize payments by building the leading Cards as a Service (CaaS) platform for MENA and Pakistan.
ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.

Tayo is the Founder & Group CEO of Paga (www.paga.com), Nigeria’s leading mobile money service. Prior to Paga, Tayo was Vice-President at Travant Capital Partners, a private equity fund in West Africa. Prior to joining Travant, Tayo was a Manager, Corporate Development, at Cisco Systems in San Jose California. Tayo’s work at Paga has beenrecognized globally - in 2014 CNBC selected Tayo as the Entrepreneur of the Year West Africa, and in 2015 the African Leadership Network selected Paga as the outstanding growing company of the year in Africa. Tayo is also the co-founder of Kairos Angels, an angel investment club.Tayo earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and also has a Masters in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

AjoMoney — AjoMoney is making access to finance easy and flexible for the financially underserved individuals and SMEs willing to cover urgent needs, by digitizing the community financing rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA) model.With the AjoMoney technology-driven platform, individuals can save and access interest-free to low-interest credits,businesses can sell credit securely to customers who are saving with them under a cooperative model.
Tyms — Tyms is a financial management platform for businesses. Tyms Book is the ideal accounting solution for businesses interested in streamlining financial processes, facilitating collaboration, and optimizing workflows.
Venco Platforms — VENCO automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.

Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

tushop — Enabling communities to reduce the cost of living together
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

tushop — Enabling communities to reduce the cost of living together
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

Michael Seibel is the Managing Director and Group Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as a CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Awesomic — Get matched with the best-fit designer on a fixed budget with no stress. Place a design task and see the first results on the next business day. Start today!
Artifact — Artifact helps capture important memories with ease by creating personal podcasts with the people of customers choice.
Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.

Cofounder and CEO of Kuda

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
24seven.pk — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.

Olumide Soyombo holds a BSc in Systems Engineering from University of Lagos, Nigeria and an MSc (Distinction) in Business and Information Technology from the Aston Business School, Birmingham, England; earning membership into the Beta Gamma Sigma Society for his high scholastic achievement.Olumide co–founded Bluechip Technologies Ltd in 2008 andhas grown the organisation from an organization with two employees to an organization with over 80 consultants spread across Lagos, Accra and Lusaka, Zambia.In 2014, Olumide setup Leadpath as a seed fund investing in local tech startups. He has invested in startups like Pushcv.com, Paystack, Piggybank.ng, Fashpa, Heels.com.ng , Delivery Science, Gloo.ng, and Cosign.co.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
The Gradient Boost — The Gradient Boost is an online mentor guided data science school. The Gradient Boost focus on delivering an online data science education from both a theoretical and practical perspective.

Prosper Otemuyiwa is a Co-founder of forLoop Africa. He attended Babcock University.

Investment focus

FinTech, CRM, Telecommunications
Pre-Seed, Angel
Nigeria, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
Sendchamp — Messagebird For Africa: Sendchamp provides Communication APIs & CRM for developers & businesses to reach their customers via different messaging channels such as SMS, Email, Voice, Whatsapp, and other digital messaging channels. Our APIs and No code tools help businesses in Africa from the stage of Customer Onboarding, CustomerEngagement, Customer Service & Customer Retention.

Ham Serunjogi is a co-founder and CEO at Chipper Cash.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Sudo — Sudo is an open API platform that enables businesses to embed powerful financial features into their products. Build in minutes, launch in days.
CreditChek — Easily assess & verify credit worthiness in Africa.
Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.

Ed Robison is a Co-Founder of Stash. He attended the University of Sydney from 2002 to 2004.

Investment focus

InsurTech, Insurance, Banking
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
Jerry — Jerry is an AI, ML, and bot-powered car ownership app that saves customers time and money on car expenses. With its first product, Jerry redesigned and disrupted the century-old car insurance process, turning stacks of pages and hours of calls into a handful of clicks. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Raffael Johnen is CEO and founding partner of auxmoney. Already during his business studies, Raffael Johnen founded his first startup company. He later worked for six years at Investmentbank Rothschild in Frankfurt in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Debt Advisory areas, most recently as Vice President. Raffael Johnen is also the founder ofExcellion Capital, a successful company in corporate finance consulting and investment, based in London. As a writer, he made a name for himself when he wrote the chapter on leveraged buyouts in the "Praxishandbuch Unternehmensbewertung".

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Nigeria, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Kippa — ## Build Setup
Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Fractal. He attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Nigeria, India

Portfolio highlights

Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
Scenario — Scenario is a developer of application modeling 3D objects for the metaverse. This technology makes and shares 3D experiences that help in scanning and capturing anything in the world with a smartphone.

Abdul Hassan

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
Klump — Use Klump to buy today, and pay in 4 equal instalments over 3 months! Businesses accept payments and increase conversion rate and revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
Topship — Topship is the easiest for African businesses to import/export parcels, cargo and freight to their customers, distributors and suppliers across the World. We use technology to drive transparency and delight, making it easy for African businesses to connect with customers, suppliers and distributors across the World.

Fresh out of business school, Yves Guillemot and his brothers embarked on an adventure in the nascent video game industry and founded Ubisoft in 1986. Early on, Yves understood that creating original content in-house and growing proprietary brands would be key to Ubisoft’s success. His vision to use technological breakthroughs as an opportunity toinnovate, create brands and win over market share proved hugely successful over the years. With a strong focus on organic growth and efficiency, he has developed an organization recognized for its unrivalled collaborative mindset and for being highly competitive, with over two thirds of production based in cost-competitive countries.Yves has led Ubisoft’s evolution over the years with player engagement at the core of the company’s development. Ubisoft is one of the pioneers and a leader of the open world genre, which has become one of the industry’s most popular gaming segments. Ubisoft also develops successful multiplayer games and delivers state-of-the-art live operations that engage fans in the long term.Under Yves’ tenure, Ubisoft launched three of the world’s four best new videogame brands of all time ─ with Tom Clancy’s The Division leading the way ─ a remarkable achievement. The company’s unique capacity as a creator of blockbuster entertainment franchises has created massive value for Ubisoft’s shareholders.As the owner of its brands, Ubisoft today is in a unique position to broaden its franchises’ reach to a much wider audience through movies, TV shows, theme parks and consumer products. Under Yves’ direction, the company is taking an innovative approach by keeping creative control over its major projects ─ a first in the industry ─ to ensure consistency with the franchises’ DNA.Over the past 30 years Yves has led Ubisoft in its evolution from a local video game distributor, to a global entertainment leader. Yves has grown alongside the industry and has a deep understanding of what it takes to survive in a fast-moving, high-risk environment, at the crossroads of creation and technological disruption. His strong business acumen is sought out by multinationals such as Lagardère and Rémy Cointreau whose boards he sits on. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2009, and Glassdoor elected him one of the Top 3 most beloved CEOs in France in 2015.

Investment focus

Logistics, E-Commerce Platforms, Location Based Services
Seed, Series A
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Kwik — Kwik Delivery is the fastest and most affordable delivery service for your businesses in Lagos, Abuja, and Ibadan. We deliver under 2 hours.

Brandon Krieg is the Co-Founder of Collective Returns, Inc. and has been its Chief Executive Officer since July 11, 2016. Brandon Krieg served as the President of Collective Returns, Inc. until July 11, 2016 and serves as its Executive Director.

Investment focus

InsurTech, Insurance, Banking
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
Jerry — Jerry is an AI, ML, and bot-powered car ownership app that saves customers time and money on car expenses. With its first product, Jerry redesigned and disrupted the century-old car insurance process, turning stacks of pages and hours of calls into a handful of clicks. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Kola Aina is an entrepreneur, technology operator and investor with vast experience working in Africa’s largest economic market. His prior entrepreneurial experience spans several sectors including venture capital, technology, media, agriculture, infrastructure, publishing and real estate. As an angel investor and while leading the early stageAfrican VC firm Ventures Platform. Venture Platform is a leading early stage African VC fund that provides founder friendly capital and support to early stage companies in a framework that is buoyed by corporate governance and hands-on support. Kola has lead investment in about 28 companies including Payments company; Paystack, Connectivity company; Tizeti, Healthcare company; MDaaS and the Agric-tech company; Thrive Agric.Kola, founded the enterprise technology company Emerging Platforms Limited, 9 years ago, quickly growing it to become one of the leading technology service delivery companies and leaders in the e-learning space in West Africa providing services to over 100,000 students. Emerging Platforms Limited is a software and technology firm that specializes in developing innovative technology solutions in education, national security and enterprise sectors.Prior to focusing on full time entrepreneurship, Kola worked in corporate finance, administration, corporate turn-around and strategy. He led strategy and finance for one of the largest publishing companies in Nigeria up till 2009. Before that he worked in corporate finance proving financial analysis at Fifth Third Bank in the USA.Kola is a leader in the African startup and investing ecosystem, a Ted speaker and volunteers his time advising founders, speaking at events and serves on the Presidential Committee for Job Creation and Youth Employment as well as the Private Sector Advisory Group to the Presidency on Creativity and Technology. Kola studied Electrical Engineering and then secured a Master in Business Administration degree with a specialization in Finance from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He has received further education from Berkley University, Harvard University and the Lagos Business School.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Payourse — We're democratising access to crypto by providing tools that help businesses build user-friendly crypto products.
Coinprofile — Coinprofile allows anyone, anywhere in the world send money to Africa. It's fast, seamless and free!
CutStruct — We build apps for building projects. Our apps are helping builders extend the value of every dollar and increasing the confidence of ordinary people to build.

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
Kavida.ai — Kavida helps procurement managers ensure on time deliveries and improve supplier collaboration.
Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.

Allen and Ollys International Limited -

Investment focus

FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
Seed, Convertible Note
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.

Edmond Nonie

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Construction
Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Track Your Build — Track Your Build uses drones, satellites, cloud computing and analytics for smart engineering infrastructure management. We also do Land and Site Surveys

Youcef Es-skouri

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.
Journify — Activate trustworthy data for your business with Journify - the leading data activation platform for top data-driven companies. Sign up free!
SwingVision — Real-Time Automated Video Analysis for Tennis

Stephen G. Pagliuca has served as a director from July 1990 (except for a six month hiatus beginning in late 2009 when he entered the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race).Mr. Pagliuca is a Managing Director of Bain Capital Partners, LLC and is also a Managing Partner and an owner of the Boston Celtics basketball franchise. Mr. Pagliuca joined Bain& Company in 1982, and founded the Information Partners private equity fund for Bain Capital in 1989.Prior to joining Bain, Mr. Pagliuca worked as a senior accountant and international tax specialist for Peat Marwick Mitchell & Company in the Netherlands.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Media and Entertainment, Sports
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Lula — Making Mobility Viable and Profitable
Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
Atmos — Atmos is building a managed marketplace for homebuilding, connecting home buyers that want to build a house with builders who can help them do just that and the financing to make it happen.

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
Chhotastock — ChhotaStock :Invest and Grow more.India's first small ticket size investment platform.

Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Linear — Linear allows the user to manage software development and track bugs. Built for speed and efficiency.The founders started Linear from their own frustrations building software projects in successful high-growth companies like Airbnb, Coinbase and Uber. The founders wanted to create the tools that focus us and its team in making progress, not getin the way. Tools that are fast and efficient. Speed and performance were the main things Linear focuses on early on and keep focusing on that.
Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.

Tyler is an entrepreneur and early-stage technology investor. He currently serves as a Managing Director of Techstars Atlanta. Prior to joining Techstars, Tyler was a member of the senior leadership team at Palantir Technologies in Silicon Valley, where he served as Chief of Staff and Head of Operations. During his tenure with Palantir, he wasbroadly engaged in scaling the operations of the business from 100 to nearly 2,000 employees.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Food Processing
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Sequr — Cloud-based access control software built to work on non-proprietary Mercury based hardware. Automation with Identity & Video Management.
Landed — We help education, healthcare, and government employees buy homes by providing access to funds, trusted partners and guidance.
Farmcrowdy — Farmcrowdy is an agric-tech platform that gives Nigerians the opportunity to participate in Agriculture by selecting the kind of farms they want to sponsor. They use the sponsor’s funds to secure the land, engage the farmer, plant the seeds, insure the farmers and farm produce, complete the full farming cycle, sell the harvest and then pay the farmsponsor a return on their sponsorship. While this farm process is ongoing, the farm sponsors are able to keep track of the full-cycle by getting updates in text, pictures and videos.

Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.

Investment focus

FinTech, Education, InsurTech
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda

Portfolio highlights

Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
Earnipay — Earnipay empowers businesses to overcome their finance and people operations challenges and improve their employees' financial wellness
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

Cristina Santin

Investment focus

FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.

Bunmi is a graduate of Computer Science from the Michigan State University, USA. An execution focused executive with over 16 years entrepreneurial experience in high-tech sales, solutions development and management, Bunmi has developed over 20 proprietary technologies in Aviation, Government, Education, Oil & Gas and Banking sector globally.Bunmi has built more than five companies till date – each a potential billion dollar company and has substantial experience/relationships in the areas of Software development, Technology Consulting, Revenue Collection Strategies, Software Project Management, Business Startups, Internet Technology & Business Development. Bunmi is the Founder, MD/CEO of Venture Garden Nigeria.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
SureGroup — Commerce in Africa is deeply facilitated by cash, but cash-based transactions are expensive, unsafe, and difficult to track. Suregifts identified an opportunity to take advantage of the growth and adoption of the internet and all things digital in Africa by creating a simple, yet safe alternative currency to be utilised for specific purposes;Vouchers.At the core of what SureGifts does, is selling and maintaining an inventory of vouchers, which can be exchanged between two or more parties, and spent at a closed but extensive network of merchants across Africa for a near-unlimited assortment of goods and services.
Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.

Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, Nigeria, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

AJUA — Start your first business web-page in minutes. Easily power online transactions, Buy Ads with your Airtime on Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Get ratings and reviews to build your business credibility, and enlarge your customer base.
Kippa — ## Build Setup
Krave Mart — Krave Mart is a quick-commerce startup offering the delivery of groceries and other products in 10 minutes.

Ayodeji Adewunmi is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Dot. He previously worked at GOKADA as a President & Co-CEO. Ayodeji Adewunmi attended Obafemi Awolowo University.

Investment focus

Apps, Gaming, Mobile
Seed, Angel
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

ChopUP — ChopUP, a division of Pledge51 Ltd is a leading mobile gaming startup in Nigeria developing locally relevant games that tell the African narratives. We are committed to consistently creating world class mobile games that are specifically designed with African themes.
Pledge51 — Pledge51 is a fresh mobile media company pursuing opportunities in Nigeria's mobile internet space. On Tuesday 29th May 2013, the company launched her social gaming platform; Chopup.Chopup is a social platform that allows mobile game players to interact based on in-game achievements. As part of the release of Chopup, the company alsolaunched Danfo Reloaded II; the first mobile game to come integrated with the Chopup Platform. The platform is unique because it caters specifically to Africa's mobile market which mostly consists of fairly basic devices and is only recently witnessing growing adoption of smart phones.The company's game/app portfolio has already crossed over 1 million downloads and growing till date.

Ndubuisi Ekekwe is the Co-Founder of Vetifly.

Investment focus

AgTech, FinTech, Internet
Angel, Pre-Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Errand360 — We are Nigeria's first community delivery service that makes use of sustainable means of transportation, we deliver goodness to your door steps and we are Eco-Friendly
BeepTool — BeepTool is a disruptive Africa-based satellite & TV White Space-based connectivity as a service and Integrated digital inclusion ecosystem such as Telehealth, Digital Farmers and consumer marketplace, mobile payments, messaging and voice ecosystem apps providing affordable digital inclusions services to millions of people in remote and ruralareas in Africa and beyond who lack access to the digital economy and are digitally excluded and underserved in area of financial, healthcare, Aggrotech, EdTech and communication services to connect the unconnected, excluded and underserved communities across Nigeria and Africa. Affordable Internet Connectivity for Unconnected and Excluded Community in Africa via Satellite and TV White-Space as a Service and Digital Inclusion Ecosystem Made history by becoming the first company to successfully complete financial transactions using “nano-satellites in the world, “ BeepTool to make a difference in people’s lives and grant them access to the kind of connected services that they haven’t had access to before by providing affordable communications, healthcare, aggrotech, and financial services to millions of people in remote areas in Africa without access to cellular or internet connectivity. We are in partnership with more than 7 GEO and LEO satellite internet broadband operators worldwide and still counting. We have manufactured affordable android smartphones called Oyi-1 and Android Tablets called ABOLE pre-installed with our digital inclusion ecosystem low data rate apps. We have also designed and manufactured Solar powered, and satellites enabled Telehealth remote mobile stations for a rural community in Africa. Our affordable solar-powered satellites terminals broadcast Wi-Fi Hotspot to the rural community allowing rural users to access the web using a mobile application in areas our partners GEO and LEO satellites cover. BeepTool is connecting everyone in Africa using satellites network and TV white space spectrum.Building on its integrated mobile platforms and satellite-based connectivity systems, BeepTool is creating an ecosystem of service-on-demand products, ranging from telehealth to financial services, messaging, Aggrotech, micro-lending, video chat, video conferencing and VoIP, among others. Affordable Internet Connectivity for Everyone: Save up to 90% on costs compared to cabling bills, and more. Super Wifi. Connect on the Go: Connect entire villages, communities, schools, parks, clinics, and businesses with long-range, lightning-fast internet. Pocket Friendly. Budget-Friendly

Gabriel Hammond

Investment focus

Internet, Wireless, FinTech
Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

QuantumStreet AI — Powering $1.5 Billion in global assets, EquBot's AI investment platform with IBM Watson helps global investment professionals deliver custom AI portfolios with better outcomes through portfolios as a service (PaaS). EquBot's AI is utilized by some of the largest financial institutions like HSBC, Athene, and Amundi and reaches investorsall over the world, including the US, China, India, Singapore, Malaysia, and Russia. EquBot is an IBM partner and was started at UC Berkeley by a team from Intel, Goldman, and Fidelity.
wifi.com.ng — TIZETI (wifi.com.ng) has been deploying high speed internet access to estates, offices, multi-tenant building using next generation wi-Fi technology. They deploy unlimited internet to residential and business customers which allow customers get the full benefit of the internet with no data or time caps. They also offer VOIP and Video on Demandservices.
Creative Market — Creative Market is a marketplace for ready-to-use design assets, including fonts, graphics, templates, add-ons, photos, and themes, from independent creators around the world.

Isaac Ewaleifoh is an Angel Investor | SDGs Ambassador.

Investment focus

Finance, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Pre-Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
CreditChek — Easily assess & verify credit worthiness in Africa.

Sahil is the founder and CEO of Gumroad.Gumroad exists to help every creative earn a living selling the stuff they make directly to their audience.Previously, he was early at Pinterest — a service that lets users collect, organize, and share the things they are into — and worked on turntable's mobile apps.He designs and buildsproducts for fun and profit.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Puter — Puter is a privacy-first personal cloud that houses all your files, apps, and games in one private and secure place, accessible from anywhere at any time.
ValueBase — This page discusses the history of ValueBase, what brought us together and why we decided that accurate appraisal was important. It also explains why we focus on mass appraisal and statistical techniques like regression.
Capsule — Capsule is a startup that makes tools for editing short-form videos.

Opeyemi Awoyemi is the Co-Founder at Moneymie. Opeyemi previously worked at Indeed.com as a Senior Technical Product Manager. He attended Obafemi Awolowo University.

Investment focus

Payments, InsurTech, Insurance
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Klump — Use Klump to buy today, and pay in 4 equal instalments over 3 months! Businesses accept payments and increase conversion rate and revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.

Gbite Oduneye is the Founder and Managing Partner of ODBA. He attended UWE Bristol and Said Business School, University of Oxford.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Financial Exchanges
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United Kingdom, Rwanda

Portfolio highlights

Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
Cashmere App — Helping millennials and Gen Z's save up for their favourite luxury goods and experiences
Kuda — Kuda is a full service digital only bank with a mission to bank every African on the planet. Kuda was founded in 2019 by Babs Ogundeyi and Musty Mustapha and is Headquartered in London

Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Baseflow — Baseflow is the first platform that streamlines Citizenship by Investment and Golden Visas. Discover the fast track to your freedom. Baseflow today to a country that actually wants you.
Orb — A community-focused social app for people to connect, interact, and transact in their daily lives on web3 built with Lens Protocol.
Toposware — From pioneering cryptographic research to engineering global-scale distributed systems technologies, Toposware is committed to solving the hardest problems to advance open internet standards.

Leonard Stiegeler is the Founder of Pulse, the leading innovative media company in Africa. He is backing & investing in media-/art-/technology- & -enabled ventures/assets. Some of his interests include Business Insider Africa, Art News Africa and Digital News Africa. Prior, he was the General Manager of Swiss Ringier AfricaAG since 2016 – responsible for buiding up the group's business on the continent. Ringier is today active in 8 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and through its ROAM-holding leads brands such as Jobberman, Cheki, Private Property, BuyRentKenya, Pigiame, ZoomTanzania, and many more. Prior to his work with Ringier since 2013, Leo helped to establish Rocket Internet and other German investors in Africa. Leo is originally from Germany and has been based in different African countries since 2011.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Bamba — Smart, simple, digital
Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Kwik — Kwik Delivery is the fastest and most affordable delivery service for your businesses in Lagos, Abuja, and Ibadan. We deliver under 2 hours.

Entrepreneur, investor. Advising global tech companies navigate through MENA+ regulatory environments, market entry and scaling

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, Nigeria, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Omnisient | Collaborative Consumer Intelligence — Omnisient is a privacy-preserving data collaboration platform that allows businesses to collaborate on data insights on consumer behaviour and preferences without sharing consumers' identities or contact information.
Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Instant EFT, debit + credit card, cash, direct deposit and debits. Manage + reconcile digital payments and send payouts
Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Ire Aderinokun - Co-Founder , COO & VP of Engineering @ Buycoins

Investment focus

Software, Ticketing, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

ORDA — ORDA is a platform allowing guests to order and pay for food and beverage on a digital menu.
tix.africa — Tix is a refreshing approach to event ticketing in Africa. Create and sell your first ticket from your phone in under 10 minutes.
ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.

Karim Atiyeh is the Co-Founder and CTO of Ramp, the fastest growing spend management platform and corporate card. Launched in 2020, Ramp gives Finance leaders an edge with powerful software that helps them save time & control spend before it happens. A Lebanese entrepreneur, Karim previously built and sold YCombinator-backed Paribus to CapitalOne in 2016.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Finnt — An accessible and secure solution to build steady savings, send and spend globally.
Winden — Winden is a business bank designed to help you make more money. Earn unlimited cash-back, free wire transfers, zero fees, and more.
Polymer Labs — Polymer Labs is building a universal IBC routing/roll-up protocol to enable E2E IBC connectivity across ecosystems.

Oliver is a global investor and entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv. Oliver is investing in US and China based companies and helps them to go international. Previous projects include airbnb, houzz and hoteltonight.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

Repool — Repool makes it easy to create and manage hedge funds. Save time, delight investors, and focus on what matters.
Peakflo — Peakflo offers efficient account payable software, account receivable software, and cashflow management software to streamline your accounting automation. Get Free Trial Now!
Pillar Financial Technologies — All-in-one Financial Platform for Small Businesses

Bashar Hamood is a result oriented professional with versatile experience across diverse organizational domains. He is well versed in the development of marketing strategies, branding, direct marketing, new products/brands launches, analysis, reporting, and positioning.He is an entrepreneur and self-starter with expansive experience in brandawareness and development, community outreach.Bashar is a versatile business manager with proven competencies in optimizing team dynamics uniting diverse agenda to common goal and harnessing strategic and operational drivers to deliver results.He has a strong analytical mind with rigorous study for each case and the output of each variation for each parameter.Bashar loves to take risk and new challenges.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Safedeploy — Fault free software update platform for tracking your software reliability in real time for every device and every software application
Event Arena — Event Arena organizes events, corporate events, conferences, sales promotions, and presentations.
Palacio Inc. — Palacio Inc. aims to inspire every living space through innovation in art and technology. Our first product Canvia is a revolutionary content platform for art and photography, which utilizes patented technology for a seamless and authentic experience in any environment. We bring content from leading contemporary creators and world class culturalinstitutions into our living spaces like never before.

Musty Mustapha - Co-Founder and CTO @ Kuda

Investment focus

Education, InsurTech, Insurance
Pre-Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.

Dale Mathias

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Internet
Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Kosa — Kosa enables organizations across healthcare, hiring and HR, credit and risk, and insurance to build or deploy more inclusive technologies.
Octamile — Octamile is Africa's best Embedded Insurance & Claims Automation solution for Insurers & B2C businesses. Get a quote today...
Paystack — Over 60,000 businesses of all sizes use Paystack to collect payments with a modern, secure payment gateway.

Samir is a social entrepreneur, writer, and connector committed to bridging the public and private sectors by bringing together diverse communities to eliminate the access gap.In 2015, Samir Co-Founded Esusu, a platform designed to empower users to better save, access capital, and build credit through community savings. Prior to Esusu, SamirCo-Founded Transfernation, a nationally recognized 501(c)3 non-profit which uses technology to ensure excess food from events goes toward underserved communities across New York City. To-date Transfernation has rescued over 300,000 thousand pounds of food and impacted 250,000 lives. For his entrepreneurial endeavors Samir has been recognized as a WEF Global Shaper, Global Good Fund Fellow, Dalai Lama Fellow, Resolution Fellow and was the recipient of the Jefferson Awards Foundation National Public Service Award.In addition to his work as a social entrepreneur, Samir has had the opportunity to build a robust skillset over his time at LinkedIn working across 5 offices in Customer Success Consulting, Talent Acquisition, and Sales Strategy & Operations focused on Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Previously Samir worked at The United Nations, Venture for America, and various non-profits in the New York City areaSamir is an avid writer and contributes for LinkedIn, The Daily Muse, Influencive, Mogul, and Quartz. Samir supplements his entrepreneurship and writing with public speaking engagements, which have ranged from The United Nations to the Clinton Global Initiative's Final Annual Meeting.Samir received his Bachelor's of Science from New York University's Stern School of Business. Samir enjoy's baking & cooking, staying active, travel, writing, and spending time with his family and 4 younger siblings.

Investment focus

Financial, Other, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mirza — We help employers hire and retain working parents and caregivers. Our care now, pay later childcare loan helps you support your workforce
Rent Small Small — Pay monthly rent when you rent an apartment, we made it easy and flexible for affordable houses for rent in Lagos Nigeria
Flourish Fi — Creating a banking experience that people love. Enable banks and credit unions to strengthen relationships with a rewards system, financial literacy and savings journey.

Selma Ribica

Investment focus

Payments, Software, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Klump — Use Klump to buy today, and pay in 4 equal instalments over 3 months! Businesses accept payments and increase conversion rate and revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
Ilara Health — Ilara Health brings accurate and affordable diagnostics to rural Africans through miniature, AI-powered diagnostic devices that are integrated via a proprietary technology platform and distributed directly to primary care doctors.

Alan Rutledge

Investment focus

IT, Financial, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Metaspectral — Compression.ai is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning and web services. The company has developed encoding and decoding capability for images using machine learning, which achieves on-average about 95% compression rates of a raw image without significantly losing its quality.
Perfekto — Perfekto es una caja de frutas y verduras imperfectas para reducir el desperdicio de alimentos y recibir productos frescos directo a tu casa.
Fello — Fello is a savings and investment platform that helps to save, invest and earn higher returns than a traditional savings account.

Yusuf Abdulmalik is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Virtualization
Pre-Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.

Lanre Adelowo is the CEO/CTO @ Fluidcoins.

Investment focus

Hardware, Software, Health Care
Pre-Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.

Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Anysphere — Anysphere is a company that builds Artificial Intelligence tools and assistants to help humans.
Clinikally — Video consult top skin & hair doctors online with the expertise of over 30,000 patients. Shop with us & get the finest skin & hair care products now!
Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.

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