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Top 15 B2B Angel Investors in Nigeria in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 15 angel investors that invest in B2b startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in B2b companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 B2B Angel Investors in Nigeria in January 2026

Investor	B2B Nigeria investments
Justin Kan	2
Stephen Pagliuca	2
Tristan Walker	1
Arash Ferdowsi	1
Abdulhamid Hassan	1
Michael Novogratz	1
Paul Kokoricha	1
Vijay Shankar	1
Patrick Spaulding Ryan	1
Maneesh Arora	1
Joshua Olulana	1
Alan Rutledge	1
Brett Kopf	1
Sahil Lavingia	1
Julian Shapiro	1

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Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, India

Portfolio highlights

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Media and Entertainment
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Lula — Making Mobility Viable and Profitable
Liquid AI — Liquid AI is an MIT spin-off with a presence in Boston, MA, and Palo Alto, CA. Our mission is to build state-of-the-art, general-purpose AI systems from first principles and deploy capable, efficient, highly aligned, and trustworthy AI for all.
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Tristan Walker is the Founder and CEO Walker and Company Brands. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stony Brook University.

Investment focus

Beauty, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Bujeti — Bujeti is the finance control centre for African businesses. Manage expenses, automate payments, and issue corporate cards for total control and visibility.
Greptile — Tabnam is an AI-powered product research tool that scrapes the internet for customer experience data about a product to help shoppers make more informed decisions.
AddGlow — Our AI-powered video generator turns your product photos into dynamic and captivating videos your customers will love. Each clip is reviewed and refined by human experts to ensure top quality, guaranteed.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
Wild Moose — Wild Moose helps on-call developers more quickly identify the source of production incidents, by providing a conversational AI trained on their environment. This allows developers to delegate the search through logs and metrics to lightning-fast AI.
The Wedding Company — The Wedding Company provides the best wedding services in India. Book end-to-end wedding planning services online with us and grab the best deals for your wedding, engagement, reception, and other events.

Abdul "AB" Hassan is the Founder and CEO of Mono, an open banking platform facilitating secure access to customers' financial accounts for financial data, direct bank payments, and identity verification. With a decade of experience in technology and payments, he has held roles in product management and entrepreneurship. In 2016,Abdul founded Hyphen.AI, a chatbot platform later sold in 2017. He then initiated OyaPay, an offline mobile payment collection service via QR codes before joining Paystack in 2019.

Investment focus

B2B, FinTech, Payments
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Bujeti — Bujeti is the finance control centre for African businesses. Manage expenses, automate payments, and issue corporate cards for total control and visibility.

Michael E. Novogratz is based out of New York, New York, and is the Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital. Michael previously served at Partner and President of Fortress Investment Group. Michael E. Novogratz attended Princeton University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Biotechnology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Alerzo — Alerzo is a B2B e-commerce retail company providing a technology and services platform that transforms how informal retail stores operate. It offers on-demand inventory distribution and financial services for small informal stores while also providing real-time market trends, customer feedback, and other consumer purchasing data to brands andmanufacturers.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Ibadan, Nigeria.
Verandah — Verandah is story based conscious luxury resort brand retailing amongst the top 100 in the global luxury resort wear space with design roots strongly based in India. Verandah also has a line of 100% Italian made sustainable swimwear to compliment the season-less ready to wear line.
Mansa — Built by Black creators with a passion for making culture-positive content, Mansa is the only place to stream the best in Global Black stories

Paul Kokoricha

Investment focus

Internet, B2B, Software
Private Equity, Seed
Mauritius, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

WIOCC — Africa's Digital Backbone
Decagon — Build faster with vetted remote software engineering talent
Accelerex Holdings — Accelerex Holdings specializes in the fields of financial services and investments.

Vijay Shankar

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Winvesta — Receive international payments in India from 180+ countries. Save up to 80% in collection costs.
Wander — Never book a bad vacation home again. Every Wander comes with hotel-grade amenities, inspiring views, pristine cleaning and 24/7 concierge service.
Delight — Delight is a dating service where users only date one person at a time. Founded in 2022 and is based in San Francisco.

Patrick Spaulding Ryan is the Co-Founder, Fractional CFO and CLO of Always Blue Games. He previously worked at TikTok as a Lead Technical Program Manager, Security + Web3 R D. Patrick Spaulding Ryan attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, Mexico, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Bitwage — Payroll, invoicing & benefits for digital assets. Bitwage offers services for companies and direct to workers. Workers can sign up and get direct deposit accounts to get paid from any company or client. Workers locally receive unique digital asset benefits. Workers internationally get paid faster & cheaper than traditional wires.
IpiNovyx Bio — Orange Grove Bio partners with leading research universities to advance preclinical biotech programs in the oncology space. The company leverages its venture capital and drug development expertise to help patients and build biotech ecosystems.
Pigeon — Pigeon Loans is a peer-to-peer lending platform that facilitates loans between family, friends, and loved ones. The platform provides their users the ability to generate legal contracts, make online payments, store loan documentation, enable automatic bank withdrawals, and make international transactions, all in an easy to use interface.PigeonLoans was founded by Brian Bristol and Anna Matilde Tanga in 2020 and is based in San Diego, CA, USA.

Maneesh Arora is CEO & co-founder of MightyText. He is a product builder who previously worked at Google and Zynga.

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, Mobile Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Japan, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Circa — More and more people are relying on mobile as their primary source of news yet the content itself continues to be produced in a format that translates very poorly to mobile devices. Rather than trying to shoehorn existing content into a new environment, Circa is creating the first born-on-mobile news experience. It will deliver news in a uniqueformat – native to mobile devices with an experience intuitive to mobile users. Through comprehensive yet to-the-point news updates paired with an engrossing mobile experience, Circa redefines how news is produced, delivered and consumed. Circa is news reimagined.Circa was founded by
HOOKED — HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.
CloudPeeps — CloudPeeps is a community, marketplace and platform that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work. Hire a team of quality professional freelancers to get the job done. Work the way you want, wherever you are!

Joshua Olulana

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Logistics
Angel
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Dora — Dora is an all-in-one delivery management platform for planning, creating, assigning, notifying, and tracking customer delivery requests and fulfillment processes.

Alan Rutledge

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bujeti — Bujeti is the finance control centre for African businesses. Manage expenses, automate payments, and issue corporate cards for total control and visibility.
FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.

Brett Kopf

Investment focus

B2B, FinTech, Mobile Payments
Pre-Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Puter — Puter is a privacy-first personal cloud that houses all your files, apps, and games in one private and secure place, accessible from anywhere at any time.
Monumental Labs — Monumental Labs is building a robot stone-sculpting factory to unleash a renaissance. Our robot artisans complete commissions in days that previously took months, with all the precision of traditional sculpting, at a fraction of the cost.
PierSight Space — PierSight is building a constellation of SAR satellites to provide persistent monitoring for the maritime industry.

Julian Shapiro is a Partner at Hyper and a Startup Investor at Julian.capital. He previously worked as the Founder of Demand Curve, a Columnist — Growth Marketing at TechCrunch, and VP of Marketing at Webflow. Julian attended Y Combinator.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Bangladesh, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

DealCart — DealCart enables users to buy their favorite products in groups by allowing users to buy in groups and sharing deals on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.
Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
Agroshift — Agroshift helps farmers sell their produce to businesses and consumers by providing a tech-enabled supply chain.

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