# Top 15 B2B Angel Investors in Nigeria in June 2026

## Justin Kan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, SaaS

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

## Stephen Pagliuca
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Sports

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.

## Abdulhamid Hassan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, FinTech, Payments

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.

## Michael Novogratz
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Biotechnology

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.

## Julian Shapiro
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

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.

## Tristan Walker
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Beauty, Women's, Software

Tristan Walker is the Founder and CEO Walker and Company Brands. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stony Brook University.

## Vijay Shankar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Vijay Shankar

## Maneesh Arora
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Internet, Mobile Apps

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

## Paul Kokoricha
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Internet, B2B, Software

Paul Kokoricha

## Alan Rutledge
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Alan Rutledge

## Brett Kopf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, FinTech, Mobile Payments

Brett Kopf

## Joshua Olulana
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Logistics

Joshua Olulana

## Sahil Lavingia
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

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.

## Patrick Spaulding Ryan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, FinTech, Software

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.

## Arash Ferdowsi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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.

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