Top 20 Artificial Intelligence Angel Investors in Nigeria (November 2026)

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• Cledara — Manage, control and automate your Company's cloud software so that you can scale your operational processes, comply with regulations and save money.
• Northflank — The execution layer for a world where software builds and operates itself. Run AI agents and everything they generate.
• Oyster — Hire, pay, manage, and take care of your globally distributed team with confidence. Try Oyster for free today!

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• Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops and supplies autonomous security and defense technology systems that help monitor and safeguard critical infrastructure such as power plants, mines, refineries, and other industrial assets. The company creates unmanned aerial drones, autonomous ground vehicles, surveillance towers, and maritime monitoring systems that operate with its proprietary ArtemisOS platform for real-time threat detection, autonomous mission planning, and coordinated response across land, air, and sea environments. Its offerings support infrastructure operators and government agencies in detecting and responding to security risks with integrated hardware and software solutions. Terra Industries focuses on delivering systems that integrate data intelligence and autonomy to enhance wide-area surveillance and operational awareness across large or remote facilities.

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• CurveCatch — CurveCatch brengt de voordelen van een kleine lingerie speciaalzaak en online shoppen samen. Enerzijds nemen we je bij de hand en nemen we alle complexiteit rond maten en pasvormen weg door deze voor jou uit te kiezen o.b.v. 15 jaar ervaring. Anderzijds ben je op 5min klaar met bestellen en kan je thuis lingerie passen alvorens deze te betalen. Je betaalt achteraf alleen wat je houdt. Bestel nu jouw box en ervaar deze nieuwe manier van shoppen!
• Arrenda — Arrenda is a fintech startup that provides market-specific insurance and financial products to the real estate markets of Latin America. It also offers advance payments to landlords upfront to lower barriers to renting in the country. Arrenda was founded in 2021 and is based in Mexico City.
• My Little Mascara Club — Meet the little mascara everyone is subscribing to, exclusively at My Little Mascara Club. Seriously smudge proof, packed with clean ingredients, and just the right size for you to always have a fresh, clump-free mascara. Delivered!

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• Abbadh Labs — Abbadh Labs is an AI deep-tech startup committed to transforming fragmented data into clear, actionable insights through advanced autonomous research, predictive analytics, and decision-intelligence systems. Its work spans academia, healthcare, and national security, bridging the divide between sophisticated technology and practical simplicity toempower institutions, researchers, healthcare professionals, and data analysts.At the core of its academic solutions is SABABAT (Smart Automated Builder And Big Analysis Tool v4.0), Abbadh Labs’ flagship platform designed to fully automate and simplify the research lifecycle. SABABAT enables users to seamlessly generate key research components—including dissertation proposals, 5-Chapter thesis writing, and literature reviews while also supporting questionnaire design, dataset handling, and advanced statistical analysis.Built with an autonomous intelligence layer, the platform delivers structured, context-aware, and hallucination-controlled outputs within minutes, eliminating the traditional delays and complexities associated with quantitative research. With an average turnaround time of under four minutes, SABABAT provides a fast, code-free, and intuitive environment tailored for students, researchers, health professionals and data analyst, who require accuracy, speed, and clarity in their work.Abbadh Labs’ mission is to make advanced technology accessible to everyone while unifying Africa’s data to enable easier, more effective prediction and decision-making. Its vision is to establish Africa’s first Unified Data Lake, driving national development through predictive intelligence and high-stakes decision-making.

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• Thor Dynamics — Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, with a European base in Finland, Thor Dynamics specializes in directed energy systems for defense against drones and drone swarms. The company’s innovative solutions are available worldwide to protect critical infrastructure and enhance national security. Laser Armor™ is a complete directed energy counter-dronesolution. Utilizing advanced radar and optical systems it can detect, track, and target hostile targets. High-power directed energy from Thor’s Laser Engines then eliminates the threat in seconds. Multiple safety systems ensure accurate target identification and minimal collateral damage.
• Warhound — Warhound is a defense technology company that develops genetically optimized and cybernetically equipped working dogs for military, law enforcement, and emergency response applications.
• North Vector Dynamics — North Vector Dynamics is a defense tech company that offers precision autonomous systems.

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• RELAYTO AI Regulated Content Platform — RELAYTO converts your PDFs & presentations to interactive web experiences with instant branding, analytics & more
• Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
• Venco Platforms — Venco automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.

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• Lamini — Lamini is the world's most powerful LLM engine, unlocking the power of generative AI for every company by putting their data to work.
• Wiz — Organizations of all sizes and industries use Wiz to rapidly identify and remove the most critical risks in AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes so they can build faster and more securely.
• H Company — H is an AI Research Lab and Product Company

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• LazyLad — LazyLad offers an application that enables its users to shop, and get groceries, stationeries, and more delivered from local stores. It also provides users the convenience of doorstep delivery of items of daily need, sourced from local and trusted sellers. They offer a technological platform to booksellers, fruit and vegetable sellers, bakers,local grocers, florists, stationers, and other retailers enabling them to expand their outreach and hence and business.LazyLad provides pop and mom shops with a mobile platform to facilitate their neighborhood commerce. The app helps create a direct platform for retailers to sell and for customers to buy, thereby doing away with any middlemen in the neighborhood/hyper-local market.LazyLad was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.
• NeoStencil — NeoStencil is a managed online education marketplace in the form of a comprehensive, one-stop test preparation platform for Indias most coveted jobs. The company's online test preparation platform offers live online classrooms where students can learn at their own pace, pause, rewind and replay anytime, use any computer or mobile device toaccess their classroom and submit their answers online, enabling them to access quality educational content from the comfort of their home. In last two years, NeoStencil has established itself as a leading player in the test preparation segment by giving industry best results for 2017. With a 3x growth YoY, the business model is operationally profitable since inception and built towards sustainability.
• Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.

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• Bam & Boo — Get the best nature has to offer with Bam&Boo. Clean Beauty that empowers you Take Care. From the original Bamboo Toothbrush to the biggest launch of 2022, our Natural Deodorant. Find all the essentials for your daily routine with carefully sourced, all-natural ingredients, vegan, and cruelty-free.
• TeknTrash Robotics — TeknTrash is AI+analytics company which provides companies with consumer dataTo that end it developed Stipra: a software which manages consumption data for companies to understand consumer patternsStipra is comprised of a SAAS cloud based portal, an APP, and a network of SmartPODs ("Point of Disposal") able to capture consumptiondata, reward users, and provide real consumption data and analytics
• Royal Laundry — Royal Laundry is a deep-tech startup building a scalable AI/Robotics platform for licensing to commercial operators. Our cloud-native technology stack, featuring Computer Vision, Decision Engines, and Distributed Automation, transforms industrial textile processing through real-time inference, massive image data processing, and intelligentorchestration.

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• Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.

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• ScoutIQ Africa — ScoutIQ Africa is an AI-powered football scouting platform dedicated to uncovering and promoting African football talent. Founded in 2026 by FA-certified scout Oluwatosin Abiodun Falae, the company bridges the gap between grassroots players in Nigeria and professional opportunities worldwide.The platform provides comprehensive scouting reportsthat include:Tactical analysis and positioning insights Technical skills assessment (dribbling, passing, finishing, creativity) Physical profiling (pace, stamina, strength) Psychological evaluation (composure, coachability, leadership) Radar chart visualizations for instant player comparison Verified video highlights and full-match footage ScoutIQ Africa serves football academies, parents, and individual players who need professional documentation to get noticed by scouts and clubs. The company's reports are trusted by academies in Nigeria and have attracted interest from European clubs including Kalmar FF and AIK Stockholm in Sweden.The founder, Oluwatosin Abiodun Falae, brings over 10 years of football development experience and holds an England FA Talent ID certification, FIFA Guardians™ certification, and BT Playmaker credential. He also serves as Chairman of Royal Football Academy, a CAC-registered institution with 1200+ registered players since 2015.ScoutIQ Africa is headquartered in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria, and operates with a mission to ensure no African talent goes unseen through the power of data-driven scouting and technology.

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• Replit — Replit is a simple yet powerful online IDE, Editor, Compiler, Interpreter, and REPL. Code, compile, run, and host in 50+ programming languages.
• Moonlake AI — Vibe code games and worlds into existence.
• Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops and supplies autonomous security and defense technology systems that help monitor and safeguard critical infrastructure such as power plants, mines, refineries, and other industrial assets. The company creates unmanned aerial drones, autonomous ground vehicles, surveillance towers, and maritime monitoring systems that operate with its proprietary ArtemisOS platform for real-time threat detection, autonomous mission planning, and coordinated response across land, air, and sea environments. Its offerings support infrastructure operators and government agencies in detecting and responding to security risks with integrated hardware and software solutions. Terra Industries focuses on delivering systems that integrate data intelligence and autonomy to enhance wide-area surveillance and operational awareness across large or remote facilities.

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• Provider — When you send us your food shopping list via Facebook Messenger, provider helps you shop with your budget and same day delivery. Powered by natural language understanding, we want to make food and condiments market more conversational, flexible and convenient. We're one of the first conversational food market players and we'll help tochange the future of mobile food market!Our goal is to make food and condiments available through messaging and we use bots (chatbots, voice assistants) and existing channels to enable instant and sustainable 1-to-1 communication.

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• IVA — IVA ensures the safety of the market towards the threat of counterfeit goods.
• Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
• ForCreators — ForCreators is a company operating the virtual talent agency ‘NEXAS', with the goal of globalizing Japan's world-class culture such as anime and VTubers.

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• howie — Howie is an AI calendar secretary for email, SMS, iMessage, Gmail, and Google Calendar. He books meetings, protects focus time, follows up, and handles reminders.
• Affiniti — Overcome cash flow challenges with our tailored financial solutions for small businesses. Discover industry-specific tools that drive success.
• VibeCode — Vibecode is an AI app builder for people who don't code.

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• Lagos Life — Lagos Life a massively popular browser-based life-simulation game modeled after Nigeria's commercial capital. Within nine days of launch, the game attracted over 4.7 million players, featuring fully simulated career tracks, social hubs, local virtual economies, and real-time multiplayer functionality directly inside web browsers.
• Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops and supplies autonomous security and defense technology systems that help monitor and safeguard critical infrastructure such as power plants, mines, refineries, and other industrial assets. The company creates unmanned aerial drones, autonomous ground vehicles, surveillance towers, and maritime monitoring systems that operate with its proprietary ArtemisOS platform for real-time threat detection, autonomous mission planning, and coordinated response across land, air, and sea environments. Its offerings support infrastructure operators and government agencies in detecting and responding to security risks with integrated hardware and software solutions. Terra Industries focuses on delivering systems that integrate data intelligence and autonomy to enhance wide-area surveillance and operational awareness across large or remote facilities.
• Lorum Finance — Lorum is the correspondent institution for banks and fintechs: programmable access to global clearing, named custody, and treasury on a 100% reserve model.

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• Vigil Labs — Machine intelligence for live markets.
• Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops and supplies autonomous security and defense technology systems that help monitor and safeguard critical infrastructure such as power plants, mines, refineries, and other industrial assets. The company creates unmanned aerial drones, autonomous ground vehicles, surveillance towers, and maritime monitoring systems that operate with its proprietary ArtemisOS platform for real-time threat detection, autonomous mission planning, and coordinated response across land, air, and sea environments. Its offerings support infrastructure operators and government agencies in detecting and responding to security risks with integrated hardware and software solutions. Terra Industries focuses on delivering systems that integrate data intelligence and autonomy to enhance wide-area surveillance and operational awareness across large or remote facilities.
• Flapping Airplanes — Flapping Airplanes is an artificial intelligence research lab that focuses on advancing foundational AI technologies with an emphasis on data-efficient model development and fundamental research into next-generation learning approaches. The organization’s work centers on exploring alternative training paradigms that reduce dependency on massivedatasets and compute scale, aiming to enable systems that learn with efficiency more akin to human cognition rather than brute-force training methods. Its team includes researchers and technical experts pursuing long-horizon scientific challenges in AI architecture, training mechanisms, and algorithmic innovation. Flapping Airplanes engages with investors and collaborators to support its research agenda, backing efforts that expand the theoretical and practical frontiers of artificial intelligence without immediate commercial product constraints. While the lab operates primarily as a research-first initiative, its findings are intended to inform future applications in areas such as enterprise AI, robotics, scientific discovery, and decision systems. The company’s strategy reflects a shift away from traditional scale-focused AI development toward exploring deep, principled advances in learning efficiency and model capabilities.

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• Winich Farms — At Winich Farms we are a technology-driven and agri-startup connecting farmers with access to finance, premium markets and passionate about ensuring global food security and democratising agricultural participation. We drive digital participation by crowdfunding through our online platforms, these we use to engage farmers with quality inputs,agricultural expertise, process automation, and machinery, with the promise of decent returns to our subscribers and the farmers at the end of each farming cycle.In addition to this, utilizing our agro e-retail platform (web and app), we connect vicinity farmers with market (households) directly at farm gate price thereby reducing the activities of middlemen, making agro produce more affordable and easily accessible.One farmer at a time, our big vision is to build an Africa that feeds the world and itself. How do we plan to achieve this? Empower African Farmers by lowering barriers to accessing Capital and financial services, data driven best practices and technology to improve yield as well as access to local and global markets for their produce with established offtaker relationships like Flour Mills of Nigeria, Dangote Foods, Labana Rice, Big Bull Rice etcBacked by Orange Corners we are on a mission to create a prosperous and economically resilient Africa powered by Agriculture.
• ChekkitApp — Chekkit is a DAG blockchain powered anti-counterfeiting solution for food and drug supply chain tracking and customer insights platform. It helps producers protect their brands, track supply chain activities, and collect last-mile consumer insights in real-time.

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• Kira — The first agentic layer for cross-border payments. USD accounts, stablecoin conversion and payments for platforms, OTC desks and global trade.
• Recall.ai — Recall.ai provides a single API for meeting bots on every platform like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more.
• Arena — Arena accelerates testing, debugging, and optimization for the world’s most advanced hardware. Atlas is an AI hardware engineer grounded in applied physics with an understanding of the real-world environment.

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• OkeyMeta — Foundation models, agentic AI, and developer infrastructure built in Nigeria.