Top 10 Big Data Angel Investors in Nigeria (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Varsha Rao
Angel
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2 | United States, India, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $400k–$46M |
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Gbenga Oyebode
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $465k–$3M |
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Olumide Soyombo
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $260k–$2.1M |
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Babs Ogundeyi
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $780k–$6M |
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Meyer Malka
Angel
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1 | United States, Brazil, India | Series A, Series C, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $1M–$133M |
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Nafiu Adenle
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Seed | EdTech, Big Data, Software | |
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O.D. Kobo
Angel
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1 | China, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Internet, Social Media, Information Technology | $250k–$32M |
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Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $425k–$5.1M |
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Jackson Moses
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Aerospace, National Security, Artificial Intelligence | $450k–$70M |
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Eric Idiahi
Angel
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1 | India, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Private Equity | Audio, Music, Dental | |
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Varsha Rao is an Executive Partner at Flare Capital Partners, former Head of Global Operations at Airbnb, CEO of Nurx and COO at Clover Health. She was the Co-Founder of Eve.com. Rao received her BS/BA in Economics/Math from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.She is an active angel investors withsuccessful investments in AI-Infra, Healthcare, Vertical AI, Consumer Tech and more.
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- Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3M; Series A $5M–$46M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alex AI — Alex is the AI recruiter that puts sourcing, screening, and scheduling on autopilot. Fast-track vetting so you interview the best in days.
- TextQL — TextQL is you personal virtual data analyst, built for enterprise and powered by AI. Ask in natural english and Ana can build insightful analysis, stunning charts, and powerful models, all with enterprise-grade security.
- Raindrop — Trace every run. Auto-fix silent failures. Simulate before shipping.
Gbenga Oyebode serves as an Of Counsel of Aluko and Oyebode. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and the Ekiti State University.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Pre-Seed $465k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mono — Mono creates API financial platform that helps companies in collecting and managing bank transfer payments. The company was founded in 2020 by Abdulhamid Hassan and Prakhar Singh and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.
- Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
- Juicyway — Juicyway moves money across borders for people and businesses. Send, receive, hold, and exchange multiple currencies from one account. | NG
Olumide Soyombo is the Co-Founder of Bluechip Technologies. Olumide Soyombo attended Aston University.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.3M; Angel $260k–$1M; Pre-Seed $260k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- JADA — Looking for Agentic AI solutions? JADA develops and manages custom AI Agents to help organizations work smarter and faster. Talk to our experts today!
- 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 .
- Spleet — Fintech Spleet Provides Tenant verification, Rent collection solutions for landlords and rent financing (Rent now, pay later) for Tenants
Cofounder and CEO of Kuda
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $780k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- Maplerad — Global payment infrastructure for businesses.
Meyer Malka is based out of Palo Alto, California and is the Founder of Ribbit Capital. Meyer previously worked at Bling Nation as a Co Founder and was Co Chief Executive Officer. Meyer Malka attended the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series C, Seed
- Geography: United States, Brazil, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $6.8M–$90M; Series C $65M–$133M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vigil Labs — Machine intelligence for live markets.
- NeoSpace AI — Neospace is a B2B Global AI startup utilizing Large Finance Models to assist financial services enterprises in reimagining, enhacing, and implementing credit scoring and allocation dollars saved.
- Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops and supplies autonomous security and defense technology systems that help monitor and safeguard critical infrastructure such as power plants, mines, refineries, and other industrial assets. The company creates unmanned aerial drones, autonomous ground vehicles, surveillance towers, and maritime monitoring systems that operate with its proprietary ArtemisOS platform for real-time threat detection, autonomous mission planning, and coordinated response across land, air, and sea environments. Its offerings support infrastructure operators and government agencies in detecting and responding to security risks with integrated hardware and software solutions. Terra Industries focuses on delivering systems that integrate data intelligence and autonomy to enhance wide-area surveillance and operational awareness across large or remote facilities.
President & Chief Scientist @ Abbadh Labs
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- Industry: EdTech, Big Data, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Abbadh Labs — Abbadh Labs is an AI deep-tech startup committed to transforming fragmented data into clear, actionable insights through advanced autonomous research, predictive analytics, and decision-intelligence systems. Its work spans academia, healthcare, and national security, bridging the divide between sophisticated technology and practical simplicity toempower institutions, researchers, healthcare professionals, and data analysts.At the core of its academic solutions is SABABAT (Smart Automated Builder And Big Analysis Tool v4.0), Abbadh Labs’ flagship platform designed to fully automate and simplify the research lifecycle. SABABAT enables users to seamlessly generate key research components—including dissertation proposals, 5-Chapter thesis writing, and literature reviews while also supporting questionnaire design, dataset handling, and advanced statistical analysis.Built with an autonomous intelligence layer, the platform delivers structured, context-aware, and hallucination-controlled outputs within minutes, eliminating the traditional delays and complexities associated with quantitative research. With an average turnaround time of under four minutes, SABABAT provides a fast, code-free, and intuitive environment tailored for students, researchers, health professionals and data analyst, who require accuracy, speed, and clarity in their work.Abbadh Labs’ mission is to make advanced technology accessible to everyone while unifying Africa’s data to enable easier, more effective prediction and decision-making. Its vision is to establish Africa’s first Unified Data Lake, driving national development through predictive intelligence and high-stakes decision-making.
O.D. Kobo is an alternative asset manager with more than two decades of experience leading capital deployment, structured finance, and cross-border investment execution across institutional, sovereign, and principal-backed mandates, with a sectoral focus on technology, energy, and infrastructure.
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- Industry: Internet, Social Media, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: China, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2M; Series A $3M–$5M; Series B $12M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kobo360 — Kobo360 is Africa's leading supply chain technology platform. We are simplifying the supply chain ecosystem with end-to-end tech products, providing a 360-degree view to all stakeholders.
- GiveHope — An easy way to raise money online for personal causes and life events, to challenging circumstances like accidents and illnesses. Voted the #1 Most Reliable Fundraising Website for personal and social causes by campaign organizers and donors across the United States.
- Totally Bored — Totally Bored is a trivia-style app designed to provide light-hearted amusement.
The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $450k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $425k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ScholarX — ScholarX enables you to study a variety of skills online, receive money for your education, upskill your employees, and expand your business. The company provides low-income Africans with digital and affordable education.
- Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
- Bata Shoe Organization — Discover a diverse selection of stylish footwear and accessories for the entire family at Bata's online store. From athletic sneakers to elegant designs, find the latest trends and comfortable options in one place. Shop now to experience unmatched style and comfort with our extensive collection.
Jackson Moses is the Founder and Managing Partner of Silent Ventures. He previously worked at ThinkOrbital as an Advisor. Jackson attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he took a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a focus on Monetary Policy and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a focus on Game Theory.
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- Industry: Aerospace, National Security, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $3.6M–$25M; Pre-Seed $450k–$5.4M; Series A $7M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.
- Stack Health — Stack Health is the operating system for personalized health plans to accelerate the transition to coverage being owned by individuals instead of employers. Stack helps our members visualize their healthcare as a ‘stack’ of products that all come together in a seamless way to create a customized and comprehensive approach to healthcare. Stackpartners with employers to create a contribution strategy that migrates from the group health world's cost and complexity toward a solution that enables freedom, transparency, and efficiency.
- Thor Dynamics — Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, with a European base in Finland, Thor Dynamics specializes in directed energy systems for defense against drones and drone swarms. The company’s innovative solutions are available worldwide to protect critical infrastructure and enhance national security. Laser Armor™ is a complete directed energy counter-dronesolution. Utilizing advanced radar and optical systems it can detect, track, and target hostile targets. High-power directed energy from Thor’s Laser Engines then eliminates the threat in seconds. Multiple safety systems ensure accurate target identification and minimal collateral damage.
Eric Idiahi is based out of Nigeria and is the Group CEO and Founder of EverCorp Industries. Eric previously worked at Greensprings School, Nigeria as a Non Executive Director. Eric Idiahi attended Said Business School, University of Oxford.
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- Industry: Audio, Music, Dental
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: India, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mono — Mono creates API financial platform that helps companies in collecting and managing bank transfer payments. The company was founded in 2020 by Abdulhamid Hassan and Prakhar Singh and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.
- Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
- Snazzy — Snazzy is a teledentistry platform for teeth straightening. It offers affordable and accessible clear aligner treatment. Snazzy was founded in 2020 by Ayush Pateria and Keshav Chouksey and was headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana.
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