Top 50 Artificial Intelligence Startup Investors in Nigeria (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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8 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $100k–$4M |
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
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5 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $50k–$10M |
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $200k–$6M |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, United States, Ghana | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $30k–$1.3M |
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8VC
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $2.5M–$175M |
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Partech
VC Fund
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4 | United States, France, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $1.1M–$56M |
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Tofino Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $100k–$131M |
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Necessary Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Venezuela | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $125k–$28M |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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Silent Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | National Security, Military, Government | $825k–$98M |
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Tekedia Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services | $150k–$2.5M |
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Rising Tide Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United Kingdom, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services | $75k–$3M |
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HoaQ
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, Internet | $100k–$3.3M |
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Cascador
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, France, United States | Debt Financing, Seed, Grant | Agriculture, Internet, Renewable Energy | $15k–$1.8M |
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Enza Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech | $1M–$31M |
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Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Energy | $500k–$15M |
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True Capital Management
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $125k–$555M |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$2M |
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Lux Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $1.8M–$150M |
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Valor Equity Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Israel, India | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $9.3M–$435M |
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Nova
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States | Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Big Data | $5.7M–$22M |
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Orange Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B, Series A | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $500k–$33M |
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon | Pre-Seed, Grant | Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage | |
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SV Angel
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $1M–$100M |
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Eric Nadalin
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, FinTech | $1.3M–$8M |
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Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | EdTech, Software, Retail | $56k–$1M |
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Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, SaaS, Health Care | $50k–$1.8M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $100k–$10M |
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $25k–$15M |
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Injini
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Education, EdTech, E-Learning | $7k–$500k |
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VilCap Investments
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech | $50k–$2.5M |
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Luminate Group
VC Fund
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2 | Brazil, United States, Canada | Seed, Series B, Convertible Note | Software, Information Technology, GovTech | $600k–$3.3M |
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$37M |
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Mobile, Information Technology | $1.9M–$20M |
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Leblon Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, India | Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $5.8M–$140M |
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Meyer Malka
Angel
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1 | United States, Brazil, India | Series A, Series C, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $1M–$133M |
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SVG Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Ireland | Pre-Seed, Seed | AgTech, Agriculture, Farming | |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$23M |
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CV VC
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Switzerland, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Software, FinTech | $125k–$4M |
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel
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1 | Japan, Nigeria, Singapore | Seed, Angel | Information Technology, SNS, Internet | $2.8M–$5.7M |
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Melo7 Tech Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Mobile | $1.3M–$70M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $100k–$40M |
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Biola Alabi
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Logistics, AgTech, FinTech | |
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Ajayi Solutions
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria | Seed | Farming, Agriculture, Food Processing | |
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Kahlil Lalji
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $500k–$11M |
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Seedy ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | Generative AI | |
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Japan Strategic Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, Nigeria, Vietnam | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Solar, Energy, Retail | $167k–$2.2M |
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Serena Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Spain | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Health Care, Information Technology | $1M–$20M |
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Atlantica Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $450k–$3.7M |
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MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $120k–$30M |
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We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 173
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $84M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
- Cybervergent — Cybervergent is a technology company that specializes in providing top-notch cybersecurity solutions to businesses and organizations.
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $550k–$4M; Pre-Seed $185k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Releaf Earth — 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.
- Tripesa — Control what AI coding assistants can install. Approve libraries, MCP servers, and extensions before they enter your codebase.
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We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 267
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $75M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
- Osmo — Osmo is a payment company that helps people to send and receive money immediately.
- Uniblock — Uniblock helps connect developers with Web3 using our APIs and services. Our developers use Uniblock because of how easy it is to integrate into exciting applications. Try it for free today!
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Growwr — Growwr is an AI-native workforce infrastructure platform building the operating system for global work.Its flagship product, Growwr AI, acts as an intelligent hiring agent that helps companies source, screen, evaluate, and hire talent through conversational workflows instead of manual recruiting processes. Companies can describe a role, definehiring priorities, and automatically receive ranked candidates based on verified skills, work history, and performance data.Beyond hiring, Growwr provides integrated global payment infrastructure that enables companies to pay talent across 180+ countries through cards, bank transfers, mobile money, and local payment rails.Because hiring, work, and payments happen inside one system, Growwr continuously generates verified workforce data around earnings, productivity, reliability, and work consistency. The company is leveraging this infrastructure to build workforce financial services including payroll, invoicing, credit scoring, and access to financial products for professionals in emerging markets.Growwr supports 90,000+ users across 15 countries, has processed over millions in payouts, and serves businesses across Africa, the UK, and the US.The company is building the AI and financial infrastructure layer powering the future of global work.
- Paycrest — Decentralized routing protocol for instant, secure, zero-fee payments in emerging markets.
- Cr3dentials — Embedded financing for neobanks
8VC is a technology and life sciences investment firm that partners with founders to develop transformational technologies. The firm focuses on creating long-term economic and societal value through its investments across various sectors, including healthcare and logistics.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 667
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$13M; Series A $7.7M–$55M; Series B $17M–$175M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $45M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Saronic — Providing the most advanced and capable autonomous vessels in the maritime domain.
- Lumber — Lumber automates scheduling, time tracking, payroll, and more for building contractors. Discover effortless construction workforce management software today.
- Flywheel.io — Flywheel is a medical image management system that streamlines imaging data aggregation, harmonization, management and analysis at scale.
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 678
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $9M–$56M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $345M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
- TeamToolz — TeamToolz creates and implements user-friendly applications that simplify and streamline the creation, management and archiving of marketing communications. Addressing the urgency of time to market, our web-based tools better enable entire brand launches by coordinating the workflow of multiple outside agencies and internal groups, for moreintegrated worldwide brand management.
- Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
Tofino Capital is an early stage investor in emerging market technology companies.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $150k–$22M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $25M–$131M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Vultron — Compress proposal production timeframes from weeks into days with Generative AI.
- Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
- Irreversible — Irreversible designs next-generation analog AI chips that enable meaningful intelligence anywhere — from sensors to robots.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Venezuela
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $3M–$9.3M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.3M; Series A $9M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kanurra — An auditable pharmacy benefit manager for self-funded and level-funded employers. Every claim visible, 100% of rebates received back, one flat fee.
- Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
- Arc Boats — Arc is electrifying the marine industry, starting with recreational boating.
Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 218
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Zazu — Zazu is an all-in-one financial platform for African SMEs, helping businesses manage payments, automate cash flow, and access real-time financial insights from one simple dashboard.
- Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
- Udu Technologies — Udu Technologies is an AI infrastructure company that offers GPU systems, AI platform integration, and technical support services.
Silent Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in exceptional founders building unrivaled defense, national security, and deep technology companies. Founded by Jackson Moses. Located in Dallas, Texas.
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- Industry: National Security, Military, Government
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $12M–$25M; Pre-Seed $825k–$5M; Series A $35M–$98M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $85M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Traysar — Building autonomous underground systems for strike and defense in the new subterra battlefield
- Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
- Dominion Dynamics — Building the autonomy stack for the Arctic, the harshest environment on Earth.
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- Industry: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Corgi Insurance — Corgi Insurance Services, Inc. ("Corgi") is an American technology company that operates an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered insurance carrier based in San Francisco, California. Corgi Insurance develops and operates a fully integrated insurance stack using AI agents to automate traditional carrier operations, becoming the world’sfirst “AI insurance company.” The company owns multiple subsidiaries operating under a dog-themed naming convention.
- 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.
- Rulebase — AI Coworkers for Financial services.
Rising Tide Africa is a women-led angel network empowering female investors and entrepreneurs through mentorship, investments, and partnerships across Africa.
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- Industry: FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $75k–$3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Figorr — Figorr is your go-to, for accessing reliable information on temperature, humidity, and location. Experience the next generation of data-driven insights with Figorr today.
- Wazima — Africa's leading patient management & tele-health service provider.
- Amayi Foods — Amayi Foods is a Nigerian company and one of core beliefs is ensuring that have a positive impact on operating environment.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$3.3M; Angel $100k–$130k; Pre-Seed $115k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
- Klas — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.
- La Ruche Health Inc. — LaRuche Health offers inclusive apps that simplify care delivery and improve patient access to preventive healthcare services.
Cascador | Business Growth Accelerator for Mid-Stage Nigerian Companies Cascador is a business growth program for Nigerian entrepreneurs leading mid-stage companies, providing mentoring and access to advisors, and investors.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Internet, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Grant $15k–$115k; Debt Financing $146k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 81% lead, 19% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $2M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
- Koolboks — Koolboks: solar-powered, financially accessible fridges with an integrated pay-as-you-go platform dedicated to making cooling accessible to all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Get a Koolboks refrigerator for as little as 25k Naira down payment today!
- Fortics Lifecare — Fortics Lifegroup is a healthcare holding company developing existing healthcare assets into world-class health facilities.
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $3.6M–$31M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.6M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $58M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Yakeey — Yakeey is an end-to-end transactional marketplace that radically simplifies the experience of buying, selling and renting real estate.We leverage on data and technology to connect all real estate market players through a state of the art platform, create a chain of trust and powerful network effects and accelerate transactions.Yakeey is builton a community of real estate advisors, YakeeyPRO, to deliver a continuous professional and tailored service at every step of the transaction.
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
- Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.
Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $558k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $28M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
- Wattnow — Wattnow's smart meters and AI show every machine's consumption live and flag waste in time to stop it. Plants cut energy costs by up to 30%.
- Octavia Carbon — Reversing Climate Change | Ending the Fossil Fuel Age | In Kenya.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 168
- Round size: Seed $949k–$5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$725k; Series A $5.3M–$555M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $672k in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- StackAI — Stack AI supercharges businesses. Deploy AI-powered applications in minutes, automate processes, and skyrocket productivity by connecting LLMs to data sources using Stack AI's no-code platform. Export your work with user-centric interfaces (chatbots and forms) and developer-friendly APIs.
- Milano Vice — Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.
- Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $40k–$2M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
- Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
Lux Capital manages over $5 billion in assets focused on founding, seed, early-stage, and growth investments at the intersection of technology and the sciences. Lux takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses in high-growth sectors. Its investment team has built over 20 companies from scratch. Lux's investmentstrategy ensures portfolio companies are better connected, have a deeper insight, and command industry leadership faster than their competitors.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 688
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$25M; Series A $7M–$90M; Series B $13M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $10M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Adimab — Premier Human Antibody Discovery and Optimization
- Toonimo — Toonimo humanize the web user experience with an engaging and personalized step-by-step interactive walkthrough
- Cajal Neuroscience — Cajal Neuroscience is a drug discovery company focused on neurodegenerative disease.
Valor Equity Partners is an operational growth investment firm that focuses on growth companies across various stages of development. For decades, it has served its companies with the expertise to solve the challenges of growth and scale. Valor Equity partners with companies and entrepreneurs who are committed to the highest standards of excellenceand the courage to transform their industries.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Israel, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 327
- Round size: Series A $9.3M–$80M; Series B $18M–$230M; Series C $10M–$435M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $759M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- CompScience — Kinetic Eye's ground-breaking technology allows for detection of risk within hours rather than days. Protecting your bottom-line and more importantly, your employees.
- Cognition — Cognition develops artificial intelligence systems for software engineering and code automation. The company operates Devin, an AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, debugs, and deploys code through integrated development workflows. Its platform works with existing development tools and codebases to support engineering tasks acrossapplication development, maintenance, and issue resolution. Cognition also provides tools that assist teams with system design, technical workflows, and collaborative coding processes. The company focuses on AI agents that automate repetitive engineering work while supporting software teams in managing complex development tasks.
- The Boring Company — The Boring Company constructs safe, fast-to-dig, and low-cost transportation, utility, and freight tunnels.
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Browse database — It's Free!A global talent investing firm on a mission to patron future world-historic individuals.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Big Data
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $5.7M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Midas — Premium mathematical datasets and formal verification tools for AI training
- Vigil Labs — Machine intelligence for live markets.
- Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
Orange Ventures is a venture fund investing in areas of Orange expertise and beyond, with financial objectives in line with VC industry standards. With 350m€ assets under management, Orange Ventures is in the top 10 corporate ventures in Europe with an investment strategy focused on helping future global tech champions, fostering innovation in theMiddle East and Africa, and supporting new sustainable and responsible business models.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Series A $2.7M–$18M; Series B $11M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $426M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Semeia — Semeia provides software that helps in medical follow-up and consultation.
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.
Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
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- Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ORIKI — A wellness + farm to skin brand that creates pampering experiences and luxurious natural personal grooming products. Sharing Africa!
- Mukuru Clean Stoves — Earthshot Prize Winner 2022. We use recycled metal to manufacture improved, efficient and affordable cookstoves.
- Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.
SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1335
- Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $3M–$37M; Series B $8.3M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $430M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Docker — Docker is a platform designed to help developers build, share, and run container applications. We handle the tedious setup, so you can focus on the code.
- NavigateAI — An AI copilot for every person in the field. NavigateAI upskills and coaches your team, runs real-time quality control, manages the project in the background, and provides expert knowledge, instantly.
- Vulcan — Frontier AI for government, law, and policy | backed by @ycombinator @generalcatalyst @cubitcapital
Eric Nadalin has entrepreneurship experiences in both the payments and telecoms spaces for over 20+ years. He cofounded Nexmo and worked as a CTO managing product and engineering teams. The company was acquired by Vonage in May 2016. During the dotcom era, he was based in San Francisco and cofounded iPIN, which was later on acquired by Valista andwas integrated with major mobile operators around the globe. Eric holds several patents in telecommunication, a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Computer Science from Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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 — Run AI agents, services, databases, and GPUs in secure microVMs. One governed path from commit to production, on our cloud or your own.
- Oyster — Hire, pay, manage, and take care of your globally distributed team with confidence. Try Oyster for free today!
Chinook Capital is focused on investments in seed- and pre-stage companies in internet software, services, and media sectors.
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- Industry: EdTech, Software, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $120k–$1M; Pre-Seed $56k–$350k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
- Propel — Propel is building an ecosystem for the future of work. The core offering is a CaaS (Community-as-a-Service) powered platform that helps fast-growing, post-raise companies across the world fill their critical tech hires with world-class African talent, either for full-time, remote or hybrid roles.With a talent focus on emerging markets with highgrowth potential, Propel is currently building the largest combined community of tech ecosystems in Africa, providing talent in these communities with access to work, embedded finance and other extended community benefits.
- Lifestores Pharmacy — Lifestores is a retail pharmacy start-up bringing disruptive innovation to the pharmaceutical sector in Nigeria by democratizing quality medicines and pharmaceutical services.
Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1982
- Round size: Seed $50k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$450k; Convertible Note $50k–$400k
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $55M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
- Vidrovr — Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media likephotos and text.The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
- TasksMind — Customer Reliability Platform
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 214
- Round size: Seed $120k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
- Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
Ingressive Capital is a renowned $50M Pan-African Venture Capital Fund that invests in indigenous founders and startups across Africa, with focus on Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria. Specializing in early-stage investments, particularly Pre-Seed and Seed stages, it targets technology companies led by top-tier talent driving transformativegrowth in Africa's GDP. The firm's thesis focuses on B2C solutions that cater to the explosive growth within the tech-enabled, decentralized-learning youth demographic, as well as B2B solutions that increase Africa’s value chain ownership from resource extraction to end-product sale. Its goal is to become becoming a highly valuable VC partner on the founders' cap tables, and being at the forefront of supporting and enabling entrepreneurial success across Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2M; Series A $500k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
- Chat Cash — Turn conversations into commerce. The unified operating system for payments, inventory, and AI sales on WhatsApp & USSD.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
Injini's EdTech Accelerator and Think Tank aims to support founders of African startups with a mission to improve educational outcomes across the region.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $39k–$500k; Grant $55k–$132k; Pre-Seed $7k–$40k
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Book Village — We are a NPC helping to end the reading crisis in SA using our online reading application where volunteer tutors digitally teach children how to read.
- Buddy Learning — Explore educational resources for families with Buddy Learning in the United States. Join us today!
- The Marking App — The Marking App provides a data-free application that automatically marks handwritten school assessments while also automating school administration.
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Browse database — It's Free!VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $50k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $294k in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Vexi — Vexi issues, operates, and processes credit cards for the young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience.
- SatSure — Premium domain available for purchase
- Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.
Luminate is a global foundation working to ensure that technology serves our needs and wellbeing.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, GovTech
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Convertible Note
- Geography: Brazil, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
- Uptrust — FieldWare provides criminal justice, community supervision and public safety workforce SaaS solutions for increased administrative and operational efficiencies.
- Nexo Jornal — Nexo is an independent digital news outlet for those who seek precise explanations and balanced interpretations on the main facts of Brazil and the world. It provide readers with contextualized information with an original approach. It was launched in November 2015 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 187
- Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $43M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
- WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
- Nucleon Security — Zero-Trust and ML-based Endpoint Detection and Response Platform #EDR #FDR #EndpointSecurity
TLCOM finds and funds exceptional founders building technology companies across Africa. Seed to Series C. Lagos, Nairobi, London.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
- Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
- LittleFish — Full stack enterprise platform that extends your infrastructure, instead of replacing it.
Leblon Capital is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $5.8M–$12M; Series B $30M–$140M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Linkup — Linkup connects large language models (LLMs) and AI agents to the internet. The platform enables AI systems to access, search, and interact with web content efficiently, enhancing their capabilities and reducing inaccuracies. By providing APIs, Linkup allows developers to integrate web content into AI applications seamlessly.
- Panthalassa — Panthalassa is a technology company focused on developing renewable energy systems in the ocean, particularly to power computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company works on harnessing wave energy to generate electricity at sea, which can then be used to run offshore data centers or converted into fuels that are transported backto land.
- Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
Micky Malka (born Meyer Malka Rais) is an entrepreneur by design and investor at heart, focused on the utilization of technology to disrupt consumer financial services. He is based in Palo Alto, California where he is the Managing Director of Ribbit Capital. Micky is also the CEO and a founding member of MECK Partners, an investment partnershipfocused on investing and building businesses in financial services, energy and agribusiness, and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Lemon, Inc. He currently serves on the Board of Wonga, a company transforming the credit market by offering small, short term loans with more transparency, speed, convenience and flexibility than banks, high street lenders and other websites. Micky also serves on the Board of Peixe Urbano, the first and largest Latin-American local commerce website.Micky grew up in Venezuela where he learned the impact of devaluation and hyperinflation at a very young age. Living with hyperinflation allowed him to develop a skill he is still well known for; accurately and quickly running numbers in his head. He also saw first hand how technology could transform businesses. In 1993, at the age of 19, Micky, co-founded Heptagon Group, a securities and investment broker dealer servicing the Venezuelan and US markets.In 1996, he graduated with a degree in Economics from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela and was one of the founders of the Wendy’s Hamburger’s franchise for Venezuela. It was one of the fastest growing food businesses worldwide with over 70 new store locations in the first 3 years.In 1998, Micky developed the online brokerage, Patagon by merging with Heptagon local operations. Patagon became Latin America’s first comprehensive Internet based financial services portal and dealer. The company expanded its online services to the United States and the rest of South America and was later acquired by the Spanish bank Banco Santander (NYSE: STD) for US$ 750 million.In 2000 Micky was the interim CEO for Banco Patagon the leader for online banking in Spain and Germany.In 2002, he co-founded Banco Lemon, a Brazilian retail bank serving the underbanked population) which became the largest private microfinance institution in Brazil. In 2009 it was acquired by Banco do Brasil, Latin America’s largest bank. Micky was also involved with Classified Media Group, an online classified company focusing on Colombia, Venezuela and Central America. The group was acquired in 2007 by MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI). In 2011 he co-founded Banco Bracce a Brazilian financial institution positioned as the merchant bank of choice for mid-cap companies in Brazil. In 2011 Meyer co-founded Lemon a service to help individuals keep track of their expenses.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Series A, Series C, Seed
- Geography: United States, Brazil, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $7M–$90M; Series C $65M–$133M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
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- Wildlife Studios — "Play Tennis Clash for an exciting game of tennis! Try Zooba for a unique Battle Royale experience. Join Wildlife Studios for a career in game development."
- Nuvemshop — Nuvemshop provides entrepreneurs and SMBs with the tools to set up, manage, and promote their online business easily from any device.With the suite of tools around payments, shipping, inventory management, and marketing provided by the company, owners are enabled to participate in the e-commerce market, ramp up their sales, reduce costs, andprovide their end customers with a shopping experience.In 2011, co-founders Alejandro Alfonso, Santiago Sosa, Jose Abuchaem, Martin Palombo, and Alejandro Vazquez established Nuvemshop in 2011.
We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.
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- Industry: AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
- Napigen — We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elitebackgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.
- Iamus Technologies — Iamus Technologies Limited is an Artificial Intelligence & Robotics company based in Ireland that has developed poultry specific robotic technology that empowers poultry farmers to make better and safer production decisions. Over the last 2 years we have been working globally with poultry processors in identifying KPIs that our robots cancontinuously gather on the ground in poultry sheds and feedback instantly to both producer and the relevant personnel back at the processing plant. Results to date are impressive with automatic and accurate data recovery from the birds on every part of the floor and analysis with real-time intervention now possible. These factors are key in addressing the growing demands of modern, intensive broiler production with the Iamus robot & platform meeting these requirements.
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series A $1.1M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
- TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
We invest in blockchain
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Switzerland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $146k–$4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$800k
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- TurnStay — Enjoy low transaction fees on card payments in ZAR, Euros or Dollars and fast payouts in your preferred currencies. Book a demo today
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
- Reppo Labs — Blockchain Network that connect Data Owners with AI Developers and AI agents through Programmable IP Co-ownership
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
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- Industry: Information Technology, SNS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$5.7M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Melo7 Tech Partners, LLC was founded by Carmelo Anthony and Stuart Goldfarb to invest in and develop opportunities primarily in early stage digital media, consumer internet and technology ventures.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Series A $6M–$21M; Series B $11M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Myro — Refillable, plant-powered bodycare that's better for you and the planet.
- Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
- Mercury — Everything you do with money. All in one place. Apply in 10 minutes for business banking that transforms how you operate.
Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
- Juicyway — The new shape of money? Fluid. Access global currencies with Juicyway. Buy, sell, hold, and pay globally using our fast APIs, web, or mobile apps. Download now.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
Biola Alabi is the Board of directors of Pulse. She previously worked at Biola Alavbi Media as a Senior Advisor & Executive Producer. Biola Alabi attended Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.Biola Alabi is the Managing Partner of Biola Alabi Media, the media icon heads a dynamic consultancy and production company with expertise instrategic consulting for pay entertainment, digital television, interactive television and emerging entertainment distribution platforms; they service governments, content creators, telecommunication industry, and investors in the converging media technology space. Biola Alabi Media productions has recently produced Nigeria’s first food travel documentary-series "Bukas and Joints" currently airing across Africa and in the USA.She is also the founder of "Grooming for Greatness" a leadership development and mentorship program for a new generation of African leaders. Named one of the 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa by Forbes Magazine (2012), a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2012) and CNBC Africa’s AABLA West African Business Woman of the Year (2013), for over five highly successful years, Biola Alabi held the high-profile position of Managing Director for M-Net Africa, part of the globally renowned Naspers Group. Prior to this, she was based in the United States where she was part of the executive team at the influential children’s television brand Sesame Street and a member of the marketing team that launched the well-respected Korean motor vehicle corporation Daewoo in the USA.
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- Industry: Logistics, AgTech, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Ajayi Solutions seeks to participate in the development of the local economy in regions across Africa by investing in small to large scale privately-held businesses. The ratification of the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement [AfCFTA] has opened a new chapter in trade across Africa and we seek to participate. We seek to invest in promisingentrepreneurs who create tech-enabled solutions to enable local production in Africa as well as facilitate intra- and inter-continental trade.
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- Industry: Farming, Agriculture, Food Processing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Foodlocker — Foodlocker is a retail business that sources foodstuff from farmers, pays them fairly, & sells to customers at decent prices both online and in-store.
Kahlil Lalji is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the CEO and Co-founder of Natural. Kahlil previously worked at Ivella as a CEO and Co-founder.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $2M–$11M; Pre-Seed $500k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- howie — howie an email-based scheduling assistant, uses artificial intelligence to automate the scheduling and rescheduling of your meetings.
- Affiniti — Overcome cash flow challenges with our tailored financial solutions for small businesses. Discover industry-specific tools that drive success.
- VibeCode — Turn your app idea into reality in minutes with Vibecode. The best AI-powered app builder that lets you design, build, and publish mobile apps and web apps without coding.
Early stage investment firm
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- Industry: Generative AI
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Irawoai — Irawoai is a running and fitness app that utilizes generative AI to enhance fitness journeys.
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- Industry: Solar, Energy, Retail
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $167k–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- Hiip — Hiip has helped +1,000 brands collaborate with 1,000,000 vetted influencers across Southeast Asia via our offices in Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore
- yasaikobo — yasaikobo is astart-up to operate a fully artificial light plant plant factory.
- 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.
Serena Ventures focuses on early-stage companies and giving them the opportunity to be heard. Serena Ventures extends relationships, encourages collaboration among portfolio companies, and expands partnership opportunities across my vast network.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6.5M; Series A $4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $111M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Midi Health — Expert care for women 40+. Made for midlife. Delivered by experienced clinicians. Covered by insurance. Book a visit today.
- Ours Privacy — Privacy platform and customer data platform for healthcare.
- Formulary Financial — Formulary Financial is a modern fund administrator that combines best-in-class talent and technology to deliver unparalleled partnership for GPs and LPs.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $450k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- ChipMango — ChipMango is a semiconductor company that provides chip design and pre-manufacturing engineering services.
- Salus Cloud — Empowering developers worldwide with seamless and secure application deployment and management. Join the revolution. #Salus_Cloud
- Cybervergent — Cybervergent is a technology company that specializes in providing top-notch cybersecurity solutions to businesses and organizations.
Mac Venture Capital is an early stage venture capital firm investing in startups, supporting founders with funding, strategy, and long-term business growth.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 328
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $120k–$4M; Series A $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $150M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- FriskAI — FriskAI is the runtime intelligence platform for AI agents. It gives enterprises a clear understanding of what their AI agents are doing in production, so they can deploy AI with confidence.
- Pure — Pure Poker is a privately held fintech and software company that develops a legal, compliant, rake-free real-money online poker platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company replaces the traditional casino "house" model with a trusted, identity-verified social gaming network.
- Bluecore Energy — Bluecore Energy is a maritime nuclear energy startup that builds compact, zero-emission small modular reactors (SMRs) on floating barges to democratize access to clean energy. The company develops portable, water-cooled power systems designed to scale and meet the energy demands of heavy maritime operations, coastal communities, and major ports.
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