Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in Nigeria in April 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Blockchain startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Blockchain companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in Nigeria in April 2025
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Unit — Unit Network DAO is a sovereign layer 1 blockchain built using the Substrate framework by the Web3 Foundation, Polkadot and Parity Technologies. It provides the technological and economic infrastructure for mainstream adoption of the token economy. A near-future in which millions of tokens fuel borderless communities to empower the globe.
- M10 — Material10 is an international game studio and publisher with a vision to build the future of massively multiplayer games, leveraging cutting edge technology and creating truly open virtual economies.
- Validation Cloud — Discover enterprise-grade staking and node infrastructure: Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Enjoy secure, fast, and reliable staking and node services with Validation Cloud.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- fija Finance GmbH — The new way to earn on your crypto
- Mycel — Mycel is a decentralized cross-chain asset management platform with an intent-based token transfer layer.
- Reppo Labs — Blockchain Network that connect Data Owners with AI Developers and AI agents through Programmable IP Co-ownership
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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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
- 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.
- Filmmakers Mart — Discover verified filming locations across Nigeria and Africa; Access top-tier production services through our marketplace; Submit a project brief to get personalized support; Apply for film permits directly through FMM; Get answers to your questions in our FAQ section
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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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Affinity — Affinity is a financial solutions company that provides financial inclusion, advisory, and literacy services.
- ToumAI Analytics — ToumAI Analytics is a software development company providing voice analytics, real-time analytics, and reporting services.
- PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data
GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
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- Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
- Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
- MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
LD Capital is one of Asia's earliest organizations focusing on value investing in blockchain field. Owing to industrial resource advantages and professional investment research teams, LD Capital has successively discovered and invested in projects such as Qtum, Vechain and Eos which all achieved over 100 times return.Their teams spread overChina, the United States, Europe, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, and have accumulated rich experience in areas of traditional internet, Fintech, and advanced blockchain technology. They are committed to the globalization of blockchain and quality investment in the entire industry.LD Capital focuses on blockchain innovation projects within finance, games, content publishing, Internet of Things and other circuits, and we have been propelling broad layout of blockchain technology and infrastructure construction to facilitate the comprehensive development of the global blockchain ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Swan Chain — FilSwan provides a layer 2 cross-chain infrastructure for Web3 projects by integrating data, computing, and payment into one suite. FilSwan offers a complete solution that enables web3 developers to integrate decentralized storage, edge computing, and payment across multiple chains with ease.
- Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
- Helix Labs — Decentralized Finance Focused Universal ZK Rollup
Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
- Finland, Sweden, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
- Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
- Learn.xyz — Empower your team with learning they'll actually enjoy: Learn.xyz automatically turns your knowledge base into bite-sized learning modules that your employees will love
- Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Internet, Payments
- Seed
- Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
- 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.
- Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
Polygon Ventures is an investment firm that focuses on early-stage Web3 startups.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Beamable — One line of code is all you need to build your own custom server logic via microservices along with a world of LiveOps tools and live services.
- TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.
- B² Network — B² Network is a Bitcoin Layer 2 network that utilizes ZK rollup and on-chain logical gate commitment verification mechanisms. It is a supplementary network that runs on top of the Bitcoin Network. It also introduces smart contracts to Bitcoin, which could open up new possibilities for DeFi, NFTs, and derivatives.
"Uncovering & Building Value"
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Mobile Apps, Mobile Payments
- Seed, Series B
- Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Busha — Buy, Sell, Trade your BTC, ETH, USDT, Tron to NGN on Busha the simplest, safest, and most trusted platform to manage your cryptocurrency portfolio.
- 24 Exchange — 24 Exchange renders multi-asset trading platform for professional quants and active traders.
Thesis-driven, industry-focused and independent blockchain investment firm funding the development of Web 3.0 and decentralized technologies from the heart of Europe, Frankfurt - Germany
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
- Tranched — Introducing real-time on-chain securitisation. Fintech Lenders and Professional Investors can now launch an institutional-grade transaction up to 90% faster than before.
- River Platform Company — Orchestrate IRL events at massive scale by leveraging volunteer hosts from your community. Monetize community events with our sponsorship marketplace.
Ugochukwu Aronu is the Co-Founder And CEO of Xend.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Energy, Delivery
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Arone — Arone pioneers technology that makes the world work more efficiently. In the air, Arone’s infrastructure enables hospitals access essential supplies on-demand for their patients. We also provide this infrastructure to logistics companies to enable a faster courier service for their customers. This infrastructure includes drones, dronedelivery stations (Avports), drone operators and license. For government institutions and organisations, Arone manufactures state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) saving lives and costs. For consumer electronics, Arone’s technology powers homes, offices and shops ensuring millions of people have access to electricity to live better lives.
- Gamic — Gamic is a decentralized community app designed for the crypto community. With Gamic, you can connect with like-minded individuals and stay up-to-date on the latest trends in blockchain, NFTs, AI and cryptocurrency. Gamic is powered by Web3 technology, ensuring a secure and decentralized experience for all users. Plus, with our Airdrop feature, you can easily reward members of your community with crypto tokens. Join the Gamic community today and be a part of the future of social networking!
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Nigeria, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Hata — Hata is a regulated platform where businesses & consumers can transact and access cryptocurrencies with fiat currency such as the US Dollar & Malaysia Ringgit. Our vision is to enable safe & effortless access to cryptocurrency for all. We're committed to achieve that by providing a reliable platform for all to accesscryptocurrency easily, through our commitment to customers and compliance with regulations. Hata is regulated by the Securities Commission of Malaysia as a Recognised Market Operator (Digital Asset Exchange & Digital Broker) , and the Labuan Financial Services Authority (Malaysia) as a Licensed Money Broker & Payment System Operator. Learn more at : https://hata.io
- Roxom — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
- Validation Cloud — Discover enterprise-grade staking and node infrastructure: Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Enjoy secure, fast, and reliable staking and node services with Validation Cloud.
For Angels, By Angels
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Payments, B2B
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Vietnam, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Syarpa — Syarpa is a Fintech company building the future of payments by leveraging digital assets solutions in Africa and around the world. It provides world-class and customer-centric products such as international remittance, crypto exchange, and crypto payment solutions to its diverse customer base.
- Hello Clever — Powering PayID and PayTo real-time payments for e-commerce, billers, and businesses, with instant cashback rewards for their customers
- BeeCuick — BeeCuick is the real-time hotel procurement for passionate suppliers that want to reach the hotel procurement industry, allowing them to discover genuine and real-time hotel needs tailored for products. Suppliers can start conversations or set a meeting with the right people, send quotes, and also save time and money by streamlining sales likenever before.
Biola Alabi is the Managing Partner of Biola Alabi Media, the media icon heads a dynamic consultancy and production company with expertise in strategic consulting for pay entertainment, digital television, interactive television and emerging entertainment distribution platforms; they service governments, content creators, telecommunicationindustry, 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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Investment focus
- Internet, Logistics, Blockchain
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Winich Inc (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.
Alter Global is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage startups within emerging markets such as Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. Since 2015, we’ve partnered with more than 40 exceptional ventures across 18 countries. We believe in the theory of individual change, supporting high-character founders who are buildingnot only their companies, but their communities and countries as well. We match our founders with talent, expertise, and investments from around the world.We're on a mission to create an unprecedented global network of the world's best tech founders - #ventureboldly and join us.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Indonesia, Mexico, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Aidatify — Aidatify uses proprietary AI model training technology to capture and accurately analyze data, with a focus on the blockchain sector.Its objective is to give traders with precise and sophisticated data analysis.
- Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
- Pomelo — At Pomelo we build state-of-the-art fintech infrastructure. Our technology enables you to launch and scale your financial services business.
WeMade Games dedicated to serving gamers with a portfolio of entertaining, high quality PC and Mobile games. Established in 2000, WeMade Entertainment Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ: 112040) is an international game developer publisher that has grown from a handful of passionate game pioneers to a group of over 1,000 game enthusiasts. Starting with itsfirst and a hit title "Legend of Mir 2", which has garnered over 200 million online PC gamers internationally, WeMade Entertainment has continued to develop and service dozens of PC and Mobile based games for fun loving gamers since its inception.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Blockchain, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
- South Korea, Singapore, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- HwikGo — HwikGo a MaaS platform has created a one-of-a-kind integrated platform that provides a transfer connection between public transportation and shared smart mobility via a traffic card.
- MetaCene — MetaCene is a blockchain company that aims to create an accessible Web3 world for the masses, with a focus on player-centric entertainment.
- Metaverse Magna — Battle friends & frenemies in fun casual games like candy crush, temple run, wordler to win $1K in daily prize pools. Download Hyper
Mulana IM is regulated by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) to conduct type 1, 4, 9 VA regulated activities with a focus on Virtual Assets.
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Investment focus
- Web3, Gaming, Software
- Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Gamic — Gamic is a decentralized community app designed for the crypto community. With Gamic, you can connect with like-minded individuals and stay up-to-date on the latest trends in blockchain, NFTs, AI and cryptocurrency. Gamic is powered by Web3 technology, ensuring a secure and decentralized experience for all users. Plus, with our Airdrop feature, you can easily reward members of your community with crypto tokens. Join the Gamic community today and be a part of the future of social networking!
Adeniyi Adesuyi
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Education
- Pre-Seed
- Rwanda, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
- Nandi Labs — Nandi Labs, Home of Nandi Cowry, Digital FESTAC and MoveMint Magazine
- AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
Oluchi Enebeli
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
Thrive Africa is is an impact investment platform connecting global capital with impact opportunity
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States
Startup Investment Club
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo
Portfolio highlights
- Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
- Chowdeck — Chowdeck is a food delivery service and marketplace to buy meals from a wide range of restaurants.
- Klas — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.
On a mission to back the most extraorordinary entreprenuers out of Africa solving important problems in large markets.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
- Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
15 years of experience in private equity, venture capital, investment banking, corporate strategy, angel investing, and business development having an MBA from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA and being a CAIA Charterholder.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Egypt, India
Portfolio highlights
- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
- Otida — Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives.
- 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.
Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- India, Singapore, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
- Braingaze — Braingaze solves major challenges around cognitive disorders of the brain. We use a patented neuro-biomarker based on small involuntary eye movements. These are triggered by functional games, the resulting signal is analysed using algorithms trained by Deep Learning based on actual real patient / control cases. We adress pre-symptomatic stagesof Alzheimer's disease and the most common child cognitive disorder ADHD. Our tools are on the market and covered by a CE Mark as a medical device. Our pipeline includes detection / diagnostic tools as well as digital therapy solutions that have shown to reduce symtoms by over 50%.
- Tappi — Convert one-time customers into loyal ones by getting discovered, growing leads and building your business reputation.
We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Stakpak — Stakpak is a DevOps IDE powered by AI, helps software developers build and maintain production-ready infrastructure.
- FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.
- Slingshot DAO — Bet on the next billion dollar games! Slingshot is the AI Roblox Game Launcher, powered by the $SLING Token and home to Game Factory.
Kola Aina is an entrepreneur, technology operator and investor with vast experience working in Africa’s largest economic market. His prior entrepreneurial experience spans several sectors including venture capital, technology, media, agriculture, infrastructure, publishing and real estate. As an angel investor and while leading the early stageAfrican VC firm Ventures Platform. Venture Platform is a leading early stage African VC fund that provides founder friendly capital and support to early stage companies in a framework that is buoyed by corporate governance and hands-on support. Kola has lead investment in about 28 companies including Payments company; Paystack, Connectivity company; Tizeti, Healthcare company; MDaaS and the Agric-tech company; Thrive Agric.Kola, founded the enterprise technology company Emerging Platforms Limited, 9 years ago, quickly growing it to become one of the leading technology service delivery companies and leaders in the e-learning space in West Africa providing services to over 100,000 students. Emerging Platforms Limited is a software and technology firm that specializes in developing innovative technology solutions in education, national security and enterprise sectors.Prior to focusing on full time entrepreneurship, Kola worked in corporate finance, administration, corporate turn-around and strategy. He led strategy and finance for one of
the largest publishing companies in Nigeria up till 2009. Before that he worked in corporate finance proving financial analysis at Fifth Third Bank in the USA.Kola is a leader in the African startup and investing ecosystem, a Ted speaker and volunteers his time advising founders, speaking at events and serves on the Presidential Committee for Job Creation and Youth Employment as well as the Private Sector Advisory Group to the Presidency on Creativity and Technology. Kola studied Electrical Engineering and then secured a Master in Business Administration degree with a specialization in Finance from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He has received further education from Berkley University, Harvard University and the Lagos Business School.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Partna — We're democratising access to crypto by providing tools that help businesses build user-friendly crypto products.
- Coinprofile — Coinprofile allows anyone, anywhere in the world send money to Africa. It's fast, seamless and free!
- CutStruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
- Snowstorm — Official site of the Snowstorm Network
- Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.
Yolo Investments is a venture capital, focused on seed- and A-stage investment opportunities across gaming and fintech. Based in Estonia, Yolo’s mission is to invest in outstanding people with bright ideas, who are focused on innovating and disrupting the norm in all manner of tech startups. Founded in 2017 by Tim Heath as Vereeni Investments,Yolo has created a thriving ecosystem with ventures across a variety of industries, including fintech, gambling, media, software development, crypto and blockchain-related companies.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Estonia, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Loupe — LOUPE is the #1 art streaming platform and service on connected TV and web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of home, ad supported on living room TVs or with a commercial license for public display, and allows users to purchase the artwork, select prints & originals. Loupe launched exclusively onApple TV where it is ranked #1 Lifestyle app around the world, now with 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2M monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theater/home entertainment, interior design, art market, music streaming, and hospitality.
- Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration
- Balthazar NFT Gaming — Balthazar is on a mission to empower the biggest community of gamers to create a self-sustaining,
Timi Aboyeji
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
Since the creation of Bitcoin, decentralized systems and applications have been integral to innovation in countless industries. Taureon is a leading investment manager and consulting firm in the distributed ledger technology ecosystem committed to furthering its disruption, implementation, and use.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, France
Portfolio highlights
- Versatus — Build the future in any language.
- Hydro — The Ultimate Platform for Staked Assets
- Helix Labs — Decentralized Finance Focused Universal ZK Rollup
Saturn Blockchain Ventures is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
Vasco Martinho
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
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
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
- Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
Hashkey they offers investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds, and professional accredited investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
- Supra — Supra is the world's highest-performing, fully vertically integrated L1 blockchain, and it's about to change everything.
- Panoptic — Panoptic is a perpetual, oracle-free, instant-settlement options trading protocol on the Ethereum blockchain. Panoptic enables the permissionless trading of options on top of any asset pool in the Uniswap v3 ecosystem and seeks to develop a trustless, permissionless, and composable options product, i.e., do for decentralized options markets whatx*y=k automated market maker protocols did for spot trading.Read the whitepaper behind our product here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.14232
Peter Kisadha - Founder and CEO @ Digest Africa
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
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- Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
- ElevenLabs — Create the most realistic speech with our AI audio tools in 1000s of voices and 32 languages. Easy to use API's and SDK's. Scalable, secure, and customizable voice solutions tailored for enterprise needs. Pioneering research in Text to Speech and AI Voice Generation.
- Merit Incentives — Seamless, API-driven solutions connecting you to a global network of 7,000+ brands, enabling real-time, instant gratification across 155+ countries.
TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds.
TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge.
We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.
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- Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
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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.
- Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
- littlefishapp — Littlefish is a comprehensive commerce platform that empowers banks to serve small business with tools to streamline operations, drive growth, and enhance customer engagement.
Luno Expeditions is a global early-stage investor supporting fintech & crypto founders on their journeys to build the next generation of financial services.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Nigeria
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- Onmeta — Onmeta
- Anchor — Anchor is building the infrastructure needed for businesses to build, launch, and scale banking and payment solutions.
- Sealance Corp. — Sealance provides financial services, cryptography and other services.
Onega Capital investment targets are early-stage blockchain projects, and it aims to formulate strategic conditions for mutual learning, common practice, common progress, common retreat, mutual encouragement and common prosperity, and attract investment in an open and embracing way.
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- Internet, Software, Wireless
- Seed
- Panama, Nigeria
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- Wicrypt — Wicrypt is a dynamic organization that consistently allows its users to get paid by sharing their Wi-Fi.
- Gamic — Gamic is a decentralized community app designed for the crypto community. With Gamic, you can connect with like-minded individuals and stay up-to-date on the latest trends in blockchain, NFTs, AI and cryptocurrency. Gamic is powered by Web3 technology, ensuring a secure and decentralized experience for all users. Plus, with our Airdrop feature, you can easily reward members of your community with crypto tokens. Join the Gamic community today and be a part of the future of social networking!
- Rise Of Defenders — Rise of Defenders is a very interesting Metaverse NFT game, you can use your creativity and tactical thinking to become an excellent player and receive extremely attractive rewards.
Mapleblock Capital is an investment firm that exclusively consults and invests in crypto-assets and blockchain companies. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Delhi, India.
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Estonia
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- MemeFi — MemeFi is a blending of social technology with Web3 features on-chain Social Tech app might be focusing on integrating blockchain technology with social interactions, which could offer benefits like decentralization and enhanced privacy.
- Rena Labs — Rena was creating the execution environment (TEE) abstraction Layer, designed to streamline deployment and execution workflows. This innovation aimed to enable a broad spectrum of verifiable AI use cases by providing a secure and efficient framework. Rena’s approach bridged the gap between advanced AI applications and the need for trusted, seamlessexecution, offering a foundation for reliability and scalability in AI-driven solutions.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
Vision and Mission We are a team of professionals bridg
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- Solar, Health Care, Advertising Platforms
- Funding Round, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Japan, Nigeria, Vietnam
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.
gCC (gumi Cryptos Capital) is a blockchain and cryptographic asset fund that invests in the crypto native stack from L1 to the application layer, as well as in traditional businesses supporting the ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- 0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
- Union Labs — The Modular ZK Interoperability Layer
- Ion Protocol — Ion is an Open Source Protocol built to support Ethereum stakers and restakers, to unlock a world of new applications for their assets.
Jump Capital is a thesis-led venture investor specializing in scalable software opportunities in fintech, crypto, IT and data infrastructure, the future of commerce, digital media, and vertical SaaS solutions. In addition to capital, Jump provides advocacy and support for entrepreneurs, complemented with institutional-level resources.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Mobly — Mobile lead scanner engagement platform for sales reps. Integrates with your CRM and creates a fully enriched lead for your team within seconds. No badge needed
- TrueFoundry — TrueFoundry provides Data Scientists and ML Engineers with the fastest framework for Post Model Pipeline. Using best DevOps practices, we enable instant monitored endpoints for models in 15 minutes!
- Prompt Security — Prompt Security protects organizations from all risks associated with Generative AI such as Prompt Injection, Data Leaks, Shadow AI, etc. Secure all uses of Generative AI in the organization: from GenAI tools used by employees to GenAI integrations in customer-facing products.
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CMT Digital is a blockchain and digital assets focused subsidiary of the CMT Group, a 24 year-old trading and investments firm. The CMT Group has operated as a valued partner to entrepreneurs, traders, and technologists
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Oshi — Oshi is an open animation platform that unites creators and fans to forge global anime hits within a blockchain-powered ecosystem.
- FortyTwo — Fortytwo is a decentralized AI network that employs swarm intelligence by linking consumer devices to execute small AI models. It provides a scalable and cost-efficient alternative to centralized AI systems, enabling users to contribute computing resources while ensuring data privacy. Fortytwo's goal is to create a reasoning engine thatoperates on a planetary scale and is driven by the community.
- 1Money Network Technologies — 1Money Network Technologies is a payment network dedicated to stablecoins.
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