Top 40 Big Data Startup Investors in Nigeria in May 2026

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• Nowlun — Search for cheap & fast freight prices from all shipping lines.
• REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
• Complete Farmer — Complete Farmer connects growers, buyers, and vendors with technology, support, and market access across Ghana and beyond.

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• CNote — CNote makes initial Cash Deposits easy for corporations, foundations, and individuals. Align your financial goals with your values and drive change in communities.
• 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 is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.

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• ILLA — ILLA Trucking for Logistics Solutions & Distribution
• Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
• Jetstream Africa — Jetstream monitors inventory and goods-in-transit for trade creditors and banks.

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• Swapp — Real estate developers, architects and engineers use Swapp to design buildings in a smart, flexible and efficient process.
• Toka — Toka develops cutting-edge and lawful digital forensics, intelligence and force protection capabilities to empower government agencies strengthen homeland security.
• Torii — Torii is the most advanced SaaS management platform on the market. Discover, optimize, and control your organization’s SaaS usage and cost.

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• Clarifai — Clarifai is the leading Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP Platform. Label, train, deploy models on one AI platform for developers & data scientists.
• Primer — Primer makes powerful mission-ready AI software designed to work in your environment, on your data. We help national security teams sift through massive unstructured data sets to find the needle in the haystack, understand and visualize their data, and act collaboratively. Our mission is to empower decisions that can be defended, and acted upon confidently.
• Atavistik Bio — Atavistik Bio is harnessing the power of protein-metabolite interactions to add a new lens to drug discovery.

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• CAAFiSOM — CAAFiSOM is the leading Healthcare technology provider that provides a range of healthcare services.
• Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
• Irreversible — Irreversible designs next-generation analog AI chips that enable meaningful intelligence anywhere — from sensors to robots.

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• Fivot — Fivot is a financial company that provides venture capital, financing, credit, money lending, and prepaid payment services.
• MODE — With offices in both San Mateo, California, and Tokyo, Japan. The company is rapidly growing with now over fifty employees and is in business to provide end-to-end semi-custom IoT and AI solutions for organizations to improve their operations by connecting them to their data, giving them “real-time” insights, so they can turn innovative ideas intosustainable solutions that address a wide range of challenges.Simple, yet powerful, our latest "next generation" BizStack IoT and BizStack AI solutions are comprised of a continuous improvement technology stack that collects real-time data from any sensor, device, product, equipment, or legacy system. The data is then sanitized, uniquely structured, and provided to highly customizable, intuitive dashboards with powerful insights, along with proper security in the cloud for ongoing IoT and AI applications.BizStack can be deployed 4X faster and 75% less expensively than in-house developers or outside consultants.
• OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.

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• Midas — Premium mathematical datasets and formal verification tools for AI training
• Vigil Labs — Vigil Labs is an applied research lab building proprietary systems for trading.
• 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.

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• Armada — The Armada Platform is a whole new way to succeed at the Edge with Starlink connectivity, mobile data centers & AI. Schedule a demo today.
• Gallatin — Gallatin is building a logistics platform based on the needs and constraints of today's defense industry. Gallatin's platform creates actionable insights across the tactical, operational, and strategic levels providing integrated capabilities for first, middle, and last mile solutions where they're needed most.
• Impulse Space — Economical and nimble last-mile space payload delivery

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• Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
• Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
• littlefishapp — Full stack enterprise platform that extends your infrastructure, instead of replacing it.

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• Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
• iyzico — iyzico was founded with the aim of providing a secure payment management platform to online companies of different sizes operating in different industries. Currently it offers iyziPos (secure virtualPOS solution with automated fraud prevention and high authorization-rate bank integrations) , iyziBazaar (manage marketplace payments), iyziLink (payby link, without the need of a shopping site), and Buyer Protection (secure shopping experience) as the flagship products.
• Candela — We build electric hydrofoil boats and ferries for leisure and commercial use. Explore the Candela C-8 and the Candela P-12.

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• Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
• SEND — SEND manages the entire process of moving freight by air, ocean and road to and from Africa - including customs processes, trucking and warehousing. Our application provides instant quotes & bookings, document management, cost transparency, notifications and tracking for your cargo.
• Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.

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• Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
• Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
• Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.

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• Appzone Group — We are now Zone; a blockchain enabled payment infrastructure company. Our original business is now a separate stand-alone company called Qore.
• AfyA Care — AfyA Care invests in healthcare assets with a vision to make healthcare accessible and affordable.
• Arnergy — Arnergy is a trusted solar energy company that provides clean, reliable, and affordable solar power solutions for homes and businesses, helping you save money while enjoying uninterrupted energy.

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• Mydawa — MYDAWA is here to ensure that every Kenyan can get quality, secure and affordable medicine and wellness products online
• Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
• Lapaire — Get the best affordable eyeglasses in Africa with Lapaire. Book your free vision test today at our locations across Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya & Uganda. Quality glasses, professional optometrists, unbeatable prices.

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• Mono — Mono helps businesses link their customers accounts for financial data, bank payments and identity verification across Africa.
• 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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• 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.
• 24SEVEN — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.

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• Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
• Savannah Brands — Savannah Brands is a food & beverage company.
• UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.

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• 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 —
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• Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
• Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
• Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud

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• SkySQL — SkySQL is a software company that provides databases and backup services.
• Innventure — Innventure is a provider of a global open-architecture venture platform.
• RightsFlow — RightsFlow is a leading technology-enabled provider of mechanical licensing and royalty accounting, reporting, and payment services for online music companies, record companies, distributors, artists, and songwriters. The RightsFlow technology powers rapid song identification and provides an unprecedented level of transparency for both licenseesand licensors. RightsFlow specializes in obtaining bulk physical, DPD, and ringtone licenses including streaming, tethered, and limited download rights. Our proprietary licensing technology and 30+ million song database allow us to license content, render accounting, and pay royalties on behalf of clients quickly and accurately, ensuring that rights-holders are paid for the use of their work. RightsFlow was acquired by Google in 2011 and is now part of the team at YouTube helping to simplify music licensing, content identification, accounting and payments for songwriters and publishers worldwide.

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• 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.
• JADA — JADA focuses on both technical expertise and soft skill development and is designed to upskill experienced professionals in data analytics, machine learning, and generative AI.
• Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

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• Mono — Mono helps businesses link their customers accounts for financial data, bank payments and identity verification across Africa.
• 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 — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.

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• MatX — We make the best chips physically possible for the large model needs of frontier labs.
• knownwell — Whether you need primary care or are focused on obesity medicine, we are here to serve you with warmth and expertise. No shame. No blame. Just care.
• Affiniti — Overcome cash flow challenges with our tailored financial solutions for small businesses. Discover industry-specific tools that drive success.

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• Ateios — Ateios is enabling a new generation of thin and flexible electronics with our ultra-thin, conformable, and customizable batteries. The company's current focus is zinc-oxide batteries, that achieve 2-5x higher energy density compared to coin cells. Ateios’ novel manufacturing process allows customizable batteries that can be shaped around theneeds of the product.The company was founded in 2018.
• Natilus — We are creating a new generation of hyper-efficient blended wing body aircraft designed to make commercial aviation more sustainable and efficient, ensuring a healthier planet for future generations.
• Mesh++ — Mesh++ is a solar-powered routers developer. Mesh++ uses mobile processing power to deliver a high-speed WiFi connection to outdoors and public places.

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• Osome — Osome helps foreign and Singaporean entrepreneurs to manage their businesses. Register and get your new company operational with our certified agents backed by modern technology
• Xpand (formerly 1MRobotics) — Last mile delivery challenge, solved!
• Finom — Finom is an online payment solution for entrepreneurs that makes it easy to open a business account and securely manage their finances.

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• Persado — AI-powered language generation for messages that resonate with customers, inspire action, and yield never-before-seen levels of ROI. Discover Persado.
• TRM Labs — Next Generation Blockchain Intelligence | Monitor, Investigate, and Mitigate Crypto Fraud and Financial Crime
• Imaging Advantage — Imaging Advantage is the leading provider of evidence-based, end-to-end technology enhanced radiology solutions to hospitals across the country. IA’s footprint includes major healthcare systems in Arizona, California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon and Texas, as well as other major metropolitan areas across the U.S.

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• Mono — Mono helps businesses link their customers accounts for financial data, bank payments and identity verification across Africa.
• Hopper — Hopper analyzes billions of prices daily to predict how prices will change, and tells you whether to buy or wait. Save up to 40% on your next flight.
• Couchbase — Unlike other NoSQL databases, Couchbase provides a modern cloud database that offers the robust capabilities required for business-critical applications on a highly scalable and available platform. Couchbase is built on open standards, combining the best of NoSQL with the power and familiarity of SQL, to simplify the transition from mainframe and relational databases.

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• Moffin — Moffin is an integration platform of KYC data providers that enables customers to collect and evaluate data. It can be used via API or no code.
• Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
• Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.

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• Bitnob — Bitnob is a technology and financial services company built on top of Bitcoin technologies. Bitnob offers automated Bitcoin savings and purchases, Bitcoin collaterallized loans, remittance services, OTC and business applications that makes it easier for people to transition into the Bitcoin economy
• NERGii — NERGii is a sports technology business that makes cutting-edge insoles for shoes that improve performance.
• African Warriors Fighting Championship — African Warriors Fighting Championship is Africa's leading promoter of traditional combat sports: Dambe and Wrestling.

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• MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
• Progcap — Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy, through specialized financing and technology products that empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to progress without obstacles.
• G.O.A.T Brand Labs — Purpose G.O.A.T is mono-maniacally focussed on the audacious goal of Making Indian D2C brands world...

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• Bypa-ss — Bypa-ss is working on creating a world-class SaaS healthcare environment and revolutionizing healthcare in Egypt, Join Us
• SimpliFi — We power the cards behind your brand. Instantly issue and manage virtual or physical cards, enable payments in multiple currencies, and scale globally through one secure API platform.
• ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.

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• Cloudline — Cloudline leverages lighter-than-air technology and the latest developments in unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver essential goods and services to the 1 billion people without direct access to roads and runways.
• Cloudline — The all-in-one cloud platform helping leisure businesses sell more, reduce costs & personalize experiences.
• Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.

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• Asaak — Asaak is an asset financing company redefining financial inclusion and mobility for millions across Africa. Apply for a loan today!
• Nawah Scientific — Nawah is MENA & Africa's first Cloud Lab providing R&D services to the region's scientific sectors.
• And Africa — And Africa is a consulting and investment advisory firm located in Tokyo, Japan with a branch office in South Africa.

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• Arrcus — Bringing transformative 5G & multi-cloud networking to CSPs to lower 5G infrastructure cost, expedite service delivery and monetize cloud infrastructure faster. Test drive the ACE platform for free.
• Tidelift — Tidelift is a managed open source subscription, offering commercial support and maintenance for the open source dependencies used to build applications, backed by maintainers.
• Standard Kernel — Standard Kernel builds AI technology that makes the core software running on GPUs and other accelerators faster and more efficient.

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• Aalo Atomics — Creating abundant and dependable clean energy to power humanity for generations.
• AMP — AMP Robotics creates a scalable robotic system that reduces the cost of recycling and enables smart recycling facilities. AMP Robotics' solution is a combination of computer vision and machine learning with robots that can identify and rapidly pick recyclable materials off a conveyor belt for market and recovery.AMP Robotics automates theidentification, sorting, and processing of material streams to extract value for material recovery facilities (MRFs) that process municipal solid waste, construction and demolition, e-waste, and auto-shredding. The company's engineering design reduces the cost of capital investment with modular implementation easily dropping into existing facility infrastructure without costly retrofits or interruption to operations.AMP Robotics was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Louisville, Colorado.
• Highlight — Highlight keeps track of your meetings, chats, and tasks so you can find answers, create, and act, all in one place, personalized for you.

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• 14.ai — 14.ai is a pioneering AI-native customer support for business-to-consumer brands that replaces human agents with autonomous AI.
• depthfirst — An AI-native security platform that understands your code, business logic, and infrastructure to find more vulnerabilities, slash false positives, and give developers actionable fixes in their workflow.
• Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.

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• Twenty20 — T wenty20 has closed its doors and is no longer accessible. Continue your creative journey with curated photos from Envato Elements.
• unico IDtech — unico IDtech is a developer of facial recognition and identification technology created to solve document and process management. The company's solutions operate on biometric authentication, digital onboarding and paperless verticals with a focus to transform relevant business processes, making the workflow between the company, government, andthe client to be simple and controlled.unico IDtech was established in 2007 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• 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."

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• SaveIN — SaveIN is your all-in-one Pay Later platform for healthcare, furniture, lifestyle, travel, consumer durables and more. Shop with 7000+ trusted merchants, split payments into No-cost EMIs, and enjoy seamless financing with zero down payment.
• 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.
• 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.

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• MakeSpace — Save on modern moving & storage. We have customizable solutions for everyone including warehouse storage, self storage, moving, and packing supplies.
• Adentro — Zenreach created Walk-Through Marketing to help businesses with physical locations dramatically improve customer acquisition and lifetime value by connecting digital marketing with in-store results. Zenreach Engage automatically tracks customer visits, effortlessly builds rich customer profiles and keeps them up to date. Zenreach Attract improvesad performance 4x by targeting audiences based on your best customers. Results are measured with our Walk-Through Rate™, a proprietary metric that shows when someone exposed to an ad visits a location. Founded in 2012, Zenreach serves thousands of independent merchants and leading brands like Peet’s Coffee, Ruth’s Chris and BCBG Max Azria.
• DataHub — DataHub Core is the #1 open source platform with a uniquely scalable and extensible metadata graph supporting manual and automated data management. DataHub Cloud is an enterprise-ready SaaS solution providing a fully-managed service of DataHub Core with additional AI-powered capabilities in discovery, observability, and governance to accelerateproduction-readiness of AI and data assets.