Top 50 Community Startup Investors in Nigeria (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon | Pre-Seed, Grant | Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage | |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, United States, Ghana | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $30k–$1.3M |
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GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | |
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HoaQ
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, Internet | $100k–$3.3M |
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Technovision Communications
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech | $50k–$5M |
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Zrosk Investment Management
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $200k–$33M |
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Olumide Soyombo
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $260k–$2.1M |
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Leadpath Nigeria
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria | Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, Software | $35k–$1.1M |
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Correlation Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $1.5M–$41M |
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Norfund
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria | Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing | Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy | $2.2M–$156M |
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Adam Meghji
Angel
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2 | Canada, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Internet, Software | $1.6M–$2M |
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ODBA
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care | $43k–$10M |
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $25k–$15M |
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CoVentures
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods | $200k–$15M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $100k–$40M |
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Desigan Chinniah
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Canada, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Apps, Events | $670k–$6.4M |
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $50k–$10M |
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Tayo Oviosu
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Brazil, United States | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, SaaS, Credit | $1.4M–$3.6M |
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Niche Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, E-Commerce, Software | $10k–$5.7M |
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Wemimo Abbey
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology | $1.4M–$8M |
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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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Tunde Kara
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Seed | Internet, Lifestyle, Real Estate | |
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Ire Aderinokun
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Germany | Pre-Seed | Software, Ticketing, E-Commerce | $15k–$1.1M |
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Sean Fannan
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Finance, Internet | |
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Twelve Spring Investment Group
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria | Seed | Communities, Human Resources, Staffing Agency | |
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Good Soil VC
VC Fund
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1 | Ghana, United Kingdom, Rwanda | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Retail | $35k–$940k |
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Decimal Point Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | SaaS, Payments, Communities | |
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Dakar Network Angels
VC Fund
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1 | France, India, Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Transportation, B2B, SaaS | $25k–$1.8M |
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Jimmy Ku
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Seed | Internet, Lifestyle, Real Estate | |
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Oo Nwoye
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | SaaS, Payments, E-Commerce | $200k–$670k |
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Jason Njoku
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Banking | $2M–$2.1M |
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Gbite Oduneye
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care | $43k–$10M |
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Ajim Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed | Travel, Lending, Hospital | $245k–$1.3M |
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Moonshot Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Indonesia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Lending, Internet, Communities | |
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $625k–$7.5M |
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Eduardo Campos
Angel
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1 | Brazil, United States, Nigeria | Seed | Information Technology, SaaS, Travel | $50k–$6.6M |
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Stanbic IBTC Bank
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya | Debt Financing, Seed, Post-IPO Debt | Energy, FinTech, Financial Services | $80M–$260M |
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daba
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | Travel, Lending, Internet | |
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, South Korea | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $125k–$105M |
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VFD Group
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $458k–$625k |
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SKBR
VC Fund
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1 | Brazil, United States, Mexico | Pre-Seed, Seed | Lending, Health Care, Consumer Goods | $100k–$625k |
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Kaleo Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Information Technology, Software | $25k–$15M |
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments | $30k–$15M |
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Greentree Investment Comany
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed | Financial Services, Internet, Logistics | $50k–$300k |
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Oui Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Finance, Apps | $40k–$4.9M |
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Samir Goel
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, GovTech | $1.4M–$2.3M |
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quant Mutual Fund
VC Fund
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1 | India, Nigeria | Post-IPO Equity, Post-IPO Secondary, Seed | Manufacturing, Financial Services, Solar | $5.8M–$2.9B |
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Jonathan Wasserstrum
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Real Estate, Software, FinTech | $227k–$18M |
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MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $770k–$40M |
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Fedha Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Finland, United States | Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Gift, Mobile | $300k–$625k |
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
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- Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ORIKI — A wellness + farm to skin brand that creates pampering experiences and luxurious natural personal grooming products. Sharing Africa!
- Mukuru Clean Stoves — Earthshot Prize Winner 2022. We use recycled metal to manufacture improved, efficient and affordable cookstoves.
- Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Growwr — Growwr is an AI-native workforce infrastructure platform building the operating system for global work.Its flagship product, Growwr AI, acts as an intelligent hiring agent that helps companies source, screen, evaluate, and hire talent through conversational workflows instead of manual recruiting processes. Companies can describe a role, definehiring priorities, and automatically receive ranked candidates based on verified skills, work history, and performance data.Beyond hiring, Growwr provides integrated global payment infrastructure that enables companies to pay talent across 180+ countries through cards, bank transfers, mobile money, and local payment rails.Because hiring, work, and payments happen inside one system, Growwr continuously generates verified workforce data around earnings, productivity, reliability, and work consistency. The company is leveraging this infrastructure to build workforce financial services including payroll, invoicing, credit scoring, and access to financial products for professionals in emerging markets.Growwr supports 90,000+ users across 15 countries, has processed over millions in payouts, and serves businesses across Africa, the UK, and the US.The company is building the AI and financial infrastructure layer powering the future of global work.
- Paycrest — Decentralized routing protocol for instant, secure, zero-fee payments in emerging markets.
- Cr3dentials — Cr3dentials provides a verification platform for digital earners, confirming income, reputation, and work history. The service links user accounts from marketplaces, creator networks, ecommerce systems, and crypto exchanges, including Upwork, YouTube, Shopify, and Binance. Aggregated data is transformed into verifiable credentials that captureearnings, activity, and tenure. These credentials are designed for sharing with platforms or institutions that need evidence of online work and revenue. The approach reduces manual document exchange and supports consistent proofs for digital workers. Offerings include account linking, data aggregation, and shareable verification profiles.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Startup Investment Club
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$3.3M; Angel $100k–$130k; Pre-Seed $115k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
- Klas — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.
- La Ruche Health Inc. — LaRuche Health offers inclusive apps that simplify care delivery and improve patient access to preventive healthcare services.
We Find, Fund and Follow African Founders into the future.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Niteon — Niteon - Where Africa trades with the world on its own terms.
- Blueroomcare — Blueroomcare offers private, affordable online counseling via app messaging, videos, and voice messages when you need it from licensed therapists. Get help, you deserve to be happy!
- HouseAfrica — NetAccess Communication Nigeria Limited operates in the real estate industry. The company's primary focus is on software engineering, mobile development, and DevOps engineering. It also provides services related to internet use and communication. The company's team includes a CEO and a CTO, among others, who work together to deliver theirservices. NetAccess Communication Nigeria Limited also has a connection with HouseAfrica, indicating a potential collaboration or partnership between the two entities.
Alternative investment solutions: private credit, discretionary portfolios, and the Magna Specialized Fund.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M; Series A $7M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PaidHR — PaidHR works with organizations to streamline how they manage their staff. Our precisely created solutions enable them to create the ideal place to work.
- Lingawa — Speak your native language with pride! Learn Yoruba and Igbo with fun, immersive online lessons for adults and kids (ages 5+).
- Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
Olumide Soyombo is the Co-Founder of Bluechip Technologies. Olumide Soyombo attended Aston University.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.3M; Angel $260k–$1M; Pre-Seed $260k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.
- 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.
The Ultimate Information Hub
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $35k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fashpa — Welcome to Nigeria’s leading online fashion destination! Shopping online at Fashpa.com in Nigeria means the days of looking through endless boutiques and car boot sales to find that perfect fashion item and buying it at an expensive price when you do are long gone. Whether you are searching for the latest trends, clothing items, shoes,accessories or beauty products, FASHPA.COM brings you a huge collection of brands from which to choose the very best and latest. From shoes, such as heels, espadrilles, flats, sandals for women, wedges, down to clothes, like, swimwear, shorts, underwear or lingerie, and fashion jewelry. Our extensive range of international and local brands and designers such as Topshop, New look, Asos and Zara are literally at your fingertips. Our Mission is simple, the latest trends, hottest brands and best prices all delivered to your doorstep.At FASHPA Nigeria, we believe your online shopping experience should be fantastic and enjoyed as if you visited the best fashion store in Nigeria in person.This is why we have the latest collections and we remove all the stress and make sure you are able to receive your FASHPA order as quickly as possible - in major cities that's usually 1-3 working days. Enjoy free delivery in Lagos or a low shipping rate outside lagos with multiple payment options such as Pay Online, Bank Deposit and cash on delivery. Getting your fashion fix has never been easier and more secure.
- Piggyvest — Piggyvest is a very secure online savings platform that makes saving possible by combining discipline plus flexibility to make you grow your savings.
- Leadspace — We provide reliable and flexible coworking/office spaces for entrepreneurs or founders of small and medium-sized businesses. A @p_incubator Company
Reimagining our industry. So our clients can disrupt theirs.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 451
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Series A $4M–$21M; Series B $7M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $130M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- QuadSci — Customer Intelligence AI that predicts churn and growth from product telemetry, CRM data and conversational signals.
- Birdstop — Fully automated aerial imaging on your field assets through AI powered drones.
- Autopoiesis Sciences — Autonomous scientific discovery. Building the architectures, training methods, and reasoning systems that give AI judgment.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Debt Financing $2.2M–$156M; Private Equity $7.4M–$125M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.7M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2009
Portfolio highlights
- CrossBoundary — CrossBoundary Energy's energy solutions help decarbonize enterprise by providing cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable power.
- mopo — Mobile Power's innovative pay-per-use battery sharing network unlocks clean energy for households, businesses and electric transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- AMPIN Energy Transition — AMPIN Energy Transition (Formerly Amp Energy India) is a leading renewable energy company driving India's green future with solar, wind, and storage solutions.
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Browse database — It's Free!Adam Meghji leads engineering and development efforts at Ethos. Adam has dedicated his career to creating technology that transforms how we work and play. His love for technology developed quickly as a curious child in the early days of the Internet, and his passion to create has never slowed since. He has held leadership roles at techorganizations of all sizes, from startup, to scale-up, to Fortune 500. In 2011, Adam co-founded Universe.com (acq: Ticketmaster/Live Nation), a DIY ticketing platform, where he served as CTO and developed the concept → launch → growth ➝ acquisition in 2015. Prior to that, he was instrumental in the early launch of Unata, a grocery shopping experience of the future (acq: Instacart). Earlier, Adam lead engineering and roll-out of the world’s first independent car-sharing platform at Metavera (acq: Enterprise Rent-A-Car), including launching Enterprise Car Share, and Google’s very first pilot project involving vehicles. Today, he is actively involved in the Canadian startup scene as both a mentor at Techstars and investor at Real Ventures.
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- Industry: SaaS, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Freshline — Freshline's B2B e-commerce platform makes receiving, managing, and fulfilling orders 10x more efficient for food wholesalers and distributors.
- Guild — Guild is the platform for communities. Attend an Event, catch a Presentation, and follow a Network!
- Rent Small Small — New Zealand's Biggest most reliable Online Store for all your Phone Parts needs! Fast shipping, NZ owned and Operated and here to help. Shop Now!
We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $200k–$10M; Pre-Seed $43k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Hopea Pay — Hopea Pay provides payment plans for healthcare services that comply with Shariah financial standards. The platform allows patients to split bills into monthly installments from three to twenty-four months. Payments are sent directly to healthcare providers while patients manage their schedules digitally through a mobile app. The system meetsglobal standards for security and privacy, including HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOC2. It works with healthcare providers to make services accessible through managed payment solutions.
- TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
- Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids brings African stories to life! Award-winning books, music & media that make early learning joyful, empowering & proudly cultural.
Ingressive Capital is a renowned $50M Pan-African Venture Capital Fund that invests in indigenous founders and startups across Africa, with focus on Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria. Specializing in early-stage investments, particularly Pre-Seed and Seed stages, it targets technology companies led by top-tier talent driving transformativegrowth in Africa's GDP. The firm's thesis focuses on B2C solutions that cater to the explosive growth within the tech-enabled, decentralized-learning youth demographic, as well as B2B solutions that increase Africa’s value chain ownership from resource extraction to end-product sale. Its goal is to become becoming a highly valuable VC partner on the founders' cap tables, and being at the forefront of supporting and enabling entrepreneurial success across Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2M; Series A $500k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
- Chat Cash — Turn conversations into commerce. The unified operating system for payments, inventory, and AI sales on WhatsApp & USSD.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
At CoVentures, Tech Startups are our forte and our objective is to share our expertise with founders / entrepreneurs who believe that they have an idea or company worth sharing with the world.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $200k–$15M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $8M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Lava — Zipr is a video-first fashion app that will allow brands and users to sell their clothing, while targeting the correct consumers.
- Phantm — Discover Phantm, your trusted guide to sustainable packaging. We provide packaging lifecycle analysis and environmental impact reporting to help you make informed packaging decisions
- Freckle — User friendly data enrichment. The easiest way to run enrichment, research, and clean up tasks on company & people data.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
- Juicyway — The new shape of money? Fluid. Access global currencies with Juicyway. Buy, sell, hold, and pay globally using our fast APIs, web, or mobile apps. Download now.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
Tech Advisor | Startup Mentor | Angel Investor | Board MemberDesigan Chinniah, aka Dees, provides seasoned startup, dot-com hardened, functional, strategic, creative and zero-bullshit executive advice. Dees possesses a unique set of Swiss-Army-Knife like talents and experiences - at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Business Development,Marketing, Fundraising and Developer Relations.A self-confessed geek — this sneakerhead lives in London with his wife, Sanne and their two kids, Summer Skye & Kiran Quinn.You’ve come this far… Why not say hello? helloATdesiganchinniahDOTcom#africa #ai #ar #blockchain #bots #community #connectivity #crypto #ethics #fintech #gaming #iot #opensource #privacy #speech #startups #voice #vr #web
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Events
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, Canada, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $670k–$882k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Klarytee — Klarytee is a SaaS platform that builds security into sensitive content to enable granular control wherever the data goes
- Odin — Community and investment tools for people building the future.
- TigerBeetle — TigerBeetle operates as a distributed financial accounting database for mission-critical safety and performance.
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $550k–$4M; Pre-Seed $185k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
- Tripesa — Control what AI coding assistants can install. Approve libraries, MCP servers, and extensions before they enter your codebase.
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Tayo is the Founder & Group CEO of Paga (www.paga.com), Nigeria’s leading mobile money service. Prior to Paga, Tayo was Vice-President at Travant Capital Partners, a private equity fund in West Africa. Prior to joining Travant, Tayo was a Manager, Corporate Development, at Cisco Systems in San Jose California. Tayo’s work at Paga has beenrecognized globally - in 2014 CNBC selected Tayo as the Entrepreneur of the Year West Africa, and in 2015 the African Leadership Network selected Paga as the outstanding growing company of the year in Africa. Tayo is also the co-founder of Kairos Angels, an angel investment club.Tayo earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and also has a Masters in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
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- Industry: Financial Services, SaaS, Credit
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Brazil, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RELAYTO AI Regulated Content Platform — RELAYTO converts your PDFs & presentations to interactive web experiences with instant branding, analytics & more
- Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
- Venco Platforms — Venco automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $872k–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $10k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bemi — Automatic Audit Trail for Postgres
- Sytemap — We are building a blockchain-based property record to help home buyers and financial companies access, view and verify properties starting from digitizing Estate project layouts (Sytemap) Sytemap is a first step that allows us access to a large pool of property data. The end goal can really be described as building Zillow for Africa.
- Monark Markets — Monark is an infrastructure platform that enables brokerages, wealth managers, and clearing firms to embed alternative assets natively into their existing product stacks.
Wemimo Abbey is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Esusu. He attended University of Cambridge.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mansa — Built by Black creators with a passion for making culture-positive content, Mansa is the only place to stream the best in Global Black stories
- Flourish Fi — Creating a banking experience that people love. Enable banks and credit unions to strengthen relationships with a rewards system, financial literacy and savings journey.
- Reset Financial Technologies — Reset is an earned-wage access platform that offers employees financial wellness and increases employee retention across industries through mission-driven technology.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
Chief Executive Officer @ Vendease
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- Industry: Internet, Lifestyle, Real Estate
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rent Small Small — New Zealand's Biggest most reliable Online Store for all your Phone Parts needs! Fast shipping, NZ owned and Operated and here to help. Shop Now!
Ire Aderinokun - Co-Founder , COO & VP of Engineering @ Buycoins
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- Industry: Software, Ticketing, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $15k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ORDA — ORDA develops digital products for gastronomy businesses to realize their potential. They create a digital experience culture for restauranteurs, their staff, and guests.
- Prizeless.ng — Prizeless.ng is an online platform that compares product prices across online stores in one place. The service allows users to search for products and view listed prices from multiple sellers. Product categories include electronics, phones, laptops, groceries, gaming items, cameras, accessories, and home products. The platform shows trendingsearches and featured items based on search activity. Users can compare listings, review product details, and select a store to complete a purchase. The service also provides guides and articles that explain product choices and buying steps.
- 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.
Sean Fannan is the Founder of The Marcella Foundation. He attended UC Santa Barbara.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FranShares — Diversify your portfolio and potentially earn passive income through franchise investing.
- Classify — Classify is a digital advertising company that offers smart contextual advertising.
- Rent Small Small — New Zealand's Biggest most reliable Online Store for all your Phone Parts needs! Fast shipping, NZ owned and Operated and here to help. Shop Now!
Twelve Springs Investment Group is a real estate development and technology company that seeks to shape the future of Africa through world-class iconic real estate developments and technology innovations.
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- Industry: Communities, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TalentsinAfrica — Connecting African talent to jobs, internships, scholarships, and creative spaces. Grow your career across Africa.
We are a venture capital firm that partners with founders to build global, market-defying companies. We fund diverse teams across Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ghana, United Kingdom, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $35k–$940k
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Livoh — Livoh is a software firm offering live streaming platform so the content can reach its target market.
- Zeepay — Zeepay Ghana Limited is a wholly Ghanaian owned Mobile FinancialServices company focusing on providing integrated mobile payments services with mobile wallets targeting the unbanked and banked population with the objective of bringing the unbanked into the financial stream and easing payments and collections for the banked population.Zeepayfacilitates the processing of multiple mobile phone payment transactions, and operates as a aggregator that brings transaction of all players together on one single platform. The company’s core application runs on open source technology, and is designed to integrate all types of payment platforms, banks, merchants, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and other companies with subscriber based transactions.
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Decimal Point Ventures is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: SaaS, Payments, Communities
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Venco Platforms — Venco automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.
Dakar Network Angels (DNA) is an angel investor network based in Dakar, Senegal, investing in early stage companies throughout the WAEMU region and contiguous countries.
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- Industry: Transportation, B2B, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: France, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $25k–$400k; Pre-Seed $338k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
- Venco Platforms — Venco automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.
Jimmy Ku is the Head of Growth - Developed Markets at Flutterwave. Jimmy Ku attended University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
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- Industry: Internet, Lifestyle, Real Estate
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rent Small Small — New Zealand's Biggest most reliable Online Store for all your Phone Parts needs! Fast shipping, NZ owned and Operated and here to help. Shop Now!
Investment focus
- Industry: SaaS, Payments, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Pre-Seed $200k–$670k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.
- Venco Platforms — Venco automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.
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Browse database — It's Free!Jason Njoku is Founder and CEO of Iroko, the home of Nollywood content. He has pioneered the African digital content market by bringing Nollywood (Nigerian cinema) to a global audience, and in the process has raised over $40m in investment from international VCs, including Tiger Global, Kinnevik, RISE Capital and Canal+.Launched in 2010, IROKOhas aggregated the world's largest online Nollywood content catalogue and is one of Africa’s largest internet TV providers, with a dedicated mobile app, IROKOtv, as well as ROK TV channels on Sky in the UK and DStv across Africa.In 2013, Njoku was crowned as the CNBC Africa West Africa Young Business Leader and in 2014, he was recognized as one of Fast Company's Top 1000 most Creative People in Business.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $2M–$2M; Pre-Seed $2.1M–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Rent Small Small — New Zealand's Biggest most reliable Online Store for all your Phone Parts needs! Fast shipping, NZ owned and Operated and here to help. Shop Now!
- 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.
Gbite Oduneye is the Founder and Managing Partner of ODBA. He attended UWE Bristol and Said Business School, University of Oxford.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $200k–$10M; Pre-Seed $43k–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EATO — From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.
- Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
- Treepz — Treepz is using technology to help people move efficiently in Africa. Be it for daily, inter-city or corporate commutes, users can book predictable, reliable and comfortable trips through a world-class, demand-responsive app all at the tap of a button.Treepz was founded in 2019 and operates in 4 African countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Ugandaand Kenya. It is headquartered in Ontario, Canada.
We are investing in the next generation of exceptional African founders.
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- Industry: Travel, Lending, Hospital
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $245k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
- Clafiya — Clafiya connects patients to health practitioners to provide fast and affordable on-demand primary care services in Africa.
- Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.
Moonshotvc is a venture capital firm that operates in Thailand. We invest in deep tech and industrial tech startup.
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- Industry: Lending, Internet, Communities
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BintanGO — Creator Marketing Platform terbaik di Indonesia, lebih dari 40.000 Kreator dan 100 Brand sudah bergabung. Buat campaignmu jadi fleksibel, terlacak dan terukur.
- Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- tushop — Tushop is a community group buying platform where members can sell groceries to those in their social networks and communities.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- 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.
Eduardo Campos is a Co-founder and Partner at ONEVC. A former management consultant (Monitor Group), he has been an active operator and investor in the Brazilian tech ecosystem since 2012, backing companies like Gympass, Creditas, and QuintoAndar. Eduardo also founded Parafuzo ('14), an early Brazilian local services marketplace, and Yuca('19), a leading residential real estate operator. He is passionate about supporting early-stage entrepreneurs in software, marketplace, fintech, and internet/consumer businesses.
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- Industry: Information Technology, SaaS, Travel
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Brazil, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $50k–$6.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- idwall — Idwall develops software to help small and medium-sized businesses in the customer credentialing process. It is focused on providing businesses with document validation, background check, and identity verification solutions and services. The company offers a real-time alert system that enables its users to verify customers’ data in signups andpurchases. It also provides implementation and consulting services for its solutions.Idwall was founded in July 2016 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Sao Paulo.
- Wellhub — On a mission to defeat inactivity, Gympass helps companies revolutionize how inactive employees engage in physical activity, driving lasting behavioral change. Our 2000+ clients credit Gympass' unmatched variety, convenience, and flexibility with helping to improve employee engagement, individual performance, and overall business success.Across 14 countries and over 50,000 gym and studio partners, Gympass partners with corporations to craft ongoing, personalized programs that will inspire your workforce to enroll, stay motivated, and unlock their full potential.
- Tripeese — Travefy brings together proposals, itineraries, CRM, and marketing tools so you can focus on delivering unforgettable trips. Explore with a free 10-day trial.
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- Industry: Energy, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Debt Financing $80M–$260M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- onafriq — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
- Aradel Energy — Aradel Energy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aradel Holdings Plc and focuses on upstream energy operations in Nigeria.
- Sun King — Sun King is a solar company that designs, distributes, installs, and finances solar home energy products across Africa and Asia. Sun King produces solar home systems, inverter systems, and portable lanterns, providing a solution for communities that live without reliable energy access. Sun King also offers pay-as-you-go financing options, furtherallowing consumers to access energy without high up-front costs. Sun King works with their network of international distribution partners to expand the off-grid market.
Provider of a fintech platform intended to access investment analysis and build wealth by investing in the African private and public capital markets. The company's platform offers an application for investing and trading the best African startups, stocks, and digital assets at once, enabling users to get all the latest news and curatedupdates in one place to maximize their investments.
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- Industry: Travel, Lending, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
- Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, India, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 913
- Round size: Seed $850k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $481k–$105M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $5M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Kaon — Discover prompts and AI apps built by a global community, or publish your own. FlowGPT is an open platform for building and sharing with AI.
- Pure — Pure Poker is a privately held fintech and software company that develops a legal, compliant, rake-free real-money online poker platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company replaces the traditional casino "house" model with a trusted, identity-verified social gaming network.
- Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
VFD Group is an investment organization that provides products and solutions that are accessible to everyday citizens and entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $458k–$625k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shekel Mobility — B2B marketplace for auto dealers to grow their dealerships leveraging on flexible inventory financing and management solutions. Available on web and mobile.
- Fluna — We help high-growth African exporters and importers tap into global markets via proprietary trade data, flexible financing and global treasury solutions
- VerifyMe Nigeria — VerifyMe provide real-time ID reports and ID verifications so you can have instant fraud prevention in your personal or professional life.
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- Industry: Lending, Health Care, Consumer Goods
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Brazil, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Pre-Seed $100k–$625k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OHCA — OHCA specialize in alcoholic beverages, wines, and cachaca.
- Zippi — Zippi provides financial services for gig workers in Latin America.
- Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.
Kaleo Ventures is an investment firm prefers to invest in early-stage companies across Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $25k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $100k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.1M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- BankWise — Liga123 merupakan situs slot jackpot 888 slots paling gacor dan juga platform ini terdata paling banyak dicari hari ini karena memiliki akses yang mudah tanpa harus menggunakan Apk tambahan seperti VPN untuk memainkan game favorit.
- ChipMango — ChipMango is a semiconductor company that provides chip design and pre-manufacturing engineering services.
- Aeon Cyber Defense — Aeon is a cybersecurity company focused on securing cloud, code, runtime, and AI environments.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $230k–$6M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
- MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
- Renda — At Renda, we are passionate about revolutionizing the logistics and mobility sectors with cutting-edge technology that enables businesses and operators to seamlessly scale in emerging markets.
Greentree Investment Comany is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Internet, Logistics
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Pre-Seed $50k–$300k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
- Eazyhire — Eazyhire is allows people and businesses rent assets such as equipment and vehicles that they need temporarily while providing value to the owners of those underutilized assets. We also provide asset financing through our rent to own service in partnership with financial institutions and OEMs
- Riby — At Riby we provide solutions that manages Collaborative and Community-based access to finance, peer-to-peer lending and saving groups.
Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
- Herconomy (Ex AGS Tribe) — Herconomy is a platform that allows women build their finances, capacity, collaborate and access opportunities.
- Alliance Chemicals Global — Alliance Chemicals Global supplies raw materials, commodities, and specialty chemicals to manufacturers across sectors such as home and personal care, food and nutrition, plastics, polymers, construction, coatings, and industrial applications. The company supports chemical distribution, sourcing, and logistics, including local currency invoicingand dedicated transport. It focuses on compliant, sustainable supply, working with global manufacturers and African clients. Its projects include plastic chemical recycling and development of a shea butter value chain. The organization serves customers mainly across African markets.
Samir is a social entrepreneur, writer, and connector committed to bridging the public and private sectors by bringing together diverse communities to eliminate the access gap.In 2015, Samir Co-Founded Esusu, a platform designed to empower users to better save, access capital, and build credit through community savings. Prior to Esusu, SamirCo-Founded Transfernation, a nationally recognized 501(c)3 non-profit which uses technology to ensure excess food from events goes toward underserved communities across New York City. To-date Transfernation has rescued over 300,000 thousand pounds of food and impacted 250,000 lives. For his entrepreneurial endeavors Samir has been recognized as a WEF Global Shaper, Global Good Fund Fellow, Dalai Lama Fellow, Resolution Fellow and was the recipient of the Jefferson Awards Foundation National Public Service Award.In addition to his work as a social entrepreneur, Samir has had the opportunity to build a robust skillset over his time at LinkedIn working across 5 offices in Customer Success Consulting, Talent Acquisition, and Sales Strategy & Operations focused on Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Previously Samir worked at The United Nations, Venture for America, and various non-profits in the New York City areaSamir is an avid writer and contributes for LinkedIn, The Daily Muse, Influencive, Mogul, and Quartz. Samir supplements his entrepreneurship and writing with public speaking engagements, which have ranged from The United Nations to the Clinton Global Initiative's Final Annual Meeting.Samir received his Bachelor's of Science from New York University's Stern School of Business. Samir enjoy's baking & cooking, staying active, travel, writing, and spending time with his family and 4 younger siblings.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, GovTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rent Small Small — New Zealand's Biggest most reliable Online Store for all your Phone Parts needs! Fast shipping, NZ owned and Operated and here to help. Shop Now!
- Flourish Fi — Creating a banking experience that people love. Enable banks and credit unions to strengthen relationships with a rewards system, financial literacy and savings journey.
- Reset Financial Technologies — Reset is an earned-wage access platform that offers employees financial wellness and increases employee retention across industries through mission-driven technology.
quant Mutual Fund is a financial services platform.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Financial Services, Solar
- Stage:Post-IPO Equity, Post-IPO Secondary, Seed
- Geography: India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Post-IPO Equity $5.8M–$2.9B; Post-IPO Secondary $12M–$1.8B
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AWL Agri Business — AWL Agri Business offers kitchen commodities including edible oil, wheat flour, rice, pulses, and sugar.
- Premier Energies — Premier Energies believes in change for the greater good. Premier solar panels are powering new possibilities everyday. As one of the best solar EPC companies in India, our dynamic team of solar Industry experts provide customised EPC solutions to our customers.
- Adani Green Energy — Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL) is developing a renewable portfolio of 25 GW by 2025 which includes wind power, solar power, and hybrid power projects.
Jonathan graduated from Columbia Business School in May 2012. Prior to business school, Jonathan worked in the International Capital Group at Jones Lang LaSalle where he advised foreign and domestic clients on more than $3 billion worth of transactions globally.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $227k–$1.5M; Series A $4M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BuyWander — BuyWander is a platform connecting consumers with returned products. The company appears to operate across various categories, including automotive, beauty & health, clothing, electronics, food & grocery, and home & kitchen.
- Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
- Fund That Flip — Fund That Flip offers customized lending for real estate investors. Partner with America's fastest-growing direct lender. Better than your hard money lender.
MaC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious. The firm invests in technology companies that benefit from shifts in cultural trends and behaviors in an increasingly diverse global marketplace.MaC VC is the result of the merger between successful LosAngeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures, and M Ventures.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 260
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $770k–$4.3M; Series A $6M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Skurt — Get an affordable pre-owned vehicle from right where you are and for as long as you choose.
- Remezcla — Founded in 2006, Remezcla is a Latin Culture company founded in the US. Remezcla operates as a digital publisher, creative agency, and entertainment company. Our deep cultural expertise and operational structure allow us to provide valuable insights and tactics for companies looking to effectively communicate and engage with US Latinomillennials.As a digital publisher Remezcla is considered the leading authority on emerging Latin culture and music. As a creative agency Remezcla leverages its deep expertise on culture, audience, and storytelling to offer major brands a unique perspective on how to approach US Hispanic millennial consumers. Remezcla specializes on strategy, creative and execution of projects ranging from strategic rebranding, digital content creation, branded experientials platforms and tune-in campaigns. Remezcla’s creative agency has recently worked with brands such as ESPN, HBO, Netflix, Heineken, Tecate and Dos Equis Our work has received national recognition from the Webbys, Clios, ANA, and The One Show to name a few.
- Lend Street Financial — LendStreet mission is simple help people get out of debt, rebuild their credit, and get a fresh start. They have partnerships within the financial sector which allow them to negotiate discounts on debts, which means they can pass on the discount to our customers and they in turn can get out of debt sooner, rebuild their credit and get on withtheir lives.
Fedha Capital is a venture capital firm for early-stage start-ups (Seed and Series A).
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- Industry: Financial Services, Gift, Mobile
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Finland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $300k–$625k
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ZirooPay — IroFit mobile card reader allows small businesses accept card payments anywhere they operate, even in areas with poor internet connection. By ensuring widest possible coverage area and effective operations, merchants increase sales and buyers are better served. We improve the overall purchasing experience for billions living in areas withpoor/no Internet connection.
- Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
- Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.
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