Top 40 Community Startup Investors in Nigeria in January 2026
A list of 40 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Community startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Community companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.Top 40 Community Startup Investors in Nigeria in January 2026
| Investor | Community Nigeria investments |
|---|---|
| Microtraction | 4 |
| HoaQ | 3 |
| GreenHouse Capital | 2 |
| Zrosk Investment Management | 2 |
| Olumide Soyombo | 2 |
| Ingressive Capital | 2 |
| ODBA | 2 |
| CoVentures | 2 |
| Good Soil VC | 1 |
| Dakar Network Angels | 1 |
| Consonance Investment Managers | 1 |
| Tayo Oviosu | 1 |
| Olugbenga Agboola | 1 |
| Jonathan Wasserstrum | 1 |
| Digital Technology Supercluster | 1 |
| Asymmetry Ventures | 1 |
| Samir Goel | 1 |
| Desigan Chinniah | 1 |
| IBM | 1 |
| Norfund | 1 |
| Ventures Platform | 1 |
| Fedha Capital | 1 |
| Idris Ayodeji Bello | 1 |
| MaC Venture Capital | 1 |
| Twelve Spring Investment Group | 1 |
| Ajim Capital | 1 |
| Wemimo Abbey | 1 |
| daba | 1 |
| RET Ventures | 1 |
| Moonshot Venture Capital | 1 |
| SKBR | 1 |
| Golden Palm Investments | 1 |
| Zenith Bank | 1 |
| Future Africa | 1 |
| VFD Group | 1 |
| Correlation Ventures | 1 |
| Ire Aderinokun | 1 |
| Stanbic IBTC Bank | 1 |
| Oyster Ventures | 1 |
| Greentree Investment Comany | 1 |
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- Accounteer — Choose to Automate your business' finances with smart accounting software or Pair it with one-on-one real human expert accounting and support.
- LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
- ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo
Portfolio highlights
- Clafiya — Clafiya connects patients to health practitioners to provide fast and affordable on-demand primary care services in Africa.
- 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.
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
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.
Zrosk Investment Management is an investment firm that invests in early-stage startups. We invest across the pre-seed to series A spectrum. We typically target at least 10% ownership in businesses we invest in and tend to maintain that position until series A providing much-needed early follow-on capital for our portfolio companies. Our commitmentis to provide more than just capital and to be one of the most prominent value-added investors on a company's cap table.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States
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 — Learn African languages online with expert tutors. Gain practical skills in Yoruba, Igbo, and more. Start your language journey today.
- Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
Olumide Soyombo holds a BSc in Systems Engineering from University of Lagos, Nigeria and an MSc (Distinction) in Business and Information Technology from the Aston Business School, Birmingham, England; earning membership into the Beta Gamma Sigma Society for his high scholastic achievement.Olumide co–founded Bluechip Technologies Ltd in 2008 andhas grown the organisation from an organization with two employees to an organization with over 80 consultants spread across Lagos, Accra and Lusaka, Zambia.In 2014, Olumide setup Leadpath as a seed fund investing in local tech startups. He has invested in startups like Pushcv.com, Paystack, Piggybank.ng, Fashpa, Heels.com.ng , Delivery Science, Gloo.ng, and Cosign.co.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
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.
- JADA — JADA focuses on both technical expertise and soft skill development and is designed to upskill experienced professionals in data analytics, machine learning, and generative AI.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Nowlun — Search for cheap & fast freight prices from all shipping lines.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
- Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Financial Exchanges
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Rwanda, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- 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.
- GetFundedAfrica — GetFundedAfrica's mission is to help Africa’s most promising startups find funding, grow & solve society’s greatest challenges. We do this through a media portal - GetFundedAfrica News; a learning portal - REMSANA; and an investment arm - GFA Ventures
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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Investment focus
- Software, Consumer Goods, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States, Mexico
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.
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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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Ghana, United Kingdom, Rwanda
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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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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Investment focus
- SaaS, Retail, Computer
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Tunisia, Côte d'Ivoire
Portfolio highlights
- Kamioun — Kamioun is a mobile platform that connects FMCG manufacturers to local retail shops by fast free delivery of inventory.
- 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.
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
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 — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
- Plural — Plural offers AI-powered tools for discovering, understanding and working with state and federal legislation, making it easier than ever to effectively influence and shape policy. Book a demo today.
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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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- RELAYTO Content Experience 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.
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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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Jome — On our platform, you can search for and tour thousands of new construction homes and communities near you. Our new home experts are ready to guide you through the entire home-buying process and will help you turn your dream home into a reality
- 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.
- NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
DIGITAL fuels momentum for Canadian companies to grow in Canada, driving economic growth, creating jobs and building prosperity & wellbeing.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Corporate Round, Funding Round
- Canada, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- NaijaHacks — NaijaHacks organizes the largest tech competition/Hackathon in Africa
- Food-X Technologies — Food-X Technologies is a SaaS startup in the grocery space. Food-X Technologies offers a software that helps grocery retailers operate fulfillment centres and track food freshness.
- Unity Health Toronto — Unity Health Toronto, comprised of providence healthcare, st. joseph’s health centre and st. michael’s hospital works to advance the health of everyone in our urban communities and beyond, that provides a health network that serves patients, residents and clients across the full spectrum of care, spanning primary care, secondary community care,tertiary and quaternary care services to post-acute through rehabilitation, palliative care and long-term care while investing in world-class research and education.
Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Scindo — Creating a novel biological process to turn low-value plastic landfill waste into high-value molecules.
- Parting Pro — Funeral home software dedicated to creating the best death care experience. Grow your business with online arrangements and digital case management.
- Orbit Fab — Orbit Fab is creating the future of on-orbit satellite refueling. We maximize your operational assets by enabling mission flexibility and freedom of action in space.
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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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
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.
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?
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Investment focus
- Software, Communities, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, Nigeria, United States
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.
For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Funding Round, Seed, Grant
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- AuthMind — AuthMind, an innovator in identity security, prevents identity-related cyberattacks. It's an Identity SecOps Platform including Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM). It works anywhere and deploys in minutes.
- Ceramic.ai — Ceramic.ai builds enterprise-grade infrastructure to optimize how companies train and deploy their AI models
- NetBox Labs — NetBox Labs makes the management of complex networks easier for operators by delivering open and composable products. The company's product NetBox Cloud offers an enterprise-grade, SaaS version of open-source NetBox.
Norwegian investment fund for developing countries
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- OmniRetail — Get visibility of complete value chain and optimize processes end to end with our network of networks platform.
- Wave Mobile Money — Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where less than 10% of the population has a bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, andaccepted everywhere! It is building life-changing financial infrastructure. When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, it lifted about a million people out of poverty. And yet, over 10 years later, most Africans still lack access to affordable ways to save, transfer or borrow the money they need to build businesses or provide for their families. Wave is solving this problem by using technology to build a radically inclusive and extremely affordable financial network.
- Arnergy — Arnergy is a trusted solar energy company that provides clean, reliable, and affordable solar power solutions for homes and businesses, helping you save money while enjoying uninterrupted energy.
We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
- 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.
- ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
Fedha Capital is a venture capital firm for early-stage start-ups (Seed and Series A).
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Gift, Real Estate
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Finland, United States
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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Bypa-ss — Bypa-ss is working on creating a world-class SaaS healthcare environment and revolutionizing healthcare in Egypt, Join Us
- SimpliFi — We power the cards behind your brand. Instantly issue and manage virtual or physical cards, enable payments in multiple currencies, and scale globally through one secure API platform.
- ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Skurt — Get an affordable pre-owned vehicle from right where you are and for as long as you choose.
- Antioch — Antioch is the development and simulation platform for autonomy teams to accelerate timelines, rigorously evaluate autonomous systems, and deploy with confidence.
- Catalyte — Catalyte uses AI to discover high-potential talent, develop them and deploy them directly into client organizations.
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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Investment focus
- Communities, Human Resources, Staffing Agency
- Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- TalentsinAfrica — TalentsinAfrica simplifies the recruitment process for both job seekers and recruiters. Create and share a very detailed profile of your skills and experiences for potential employers to consider. Perform targeted searches and connect with active job seekers who match your specific hiring requirements.
We are investing in the next generation of exceptional African founders.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Lending, Hospital
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya
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.
Wemimo Abbey is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Esusu. He attended University of Cambridge.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Legal, Advice
- Funding Round, Seed
- Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Mirza — We help employers hire and retain working parents and caregivers. Our care now, pay later childcare loan helps you support your workforce
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Travel, Lending, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Nigeria
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.
Smarter Partners Drive Better Tech. Our Strategic Investors comprise the largest group of multifamily and single-family rental owner/operators ever amassed
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Investment focus
- Software, Real Estate, Property Management
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Crew — Never miss trash day! Crew offers reliable home trash can to curb service, on-demand trash out, and junk removal. Automate waste pickup with our easy app.
- Lula — Lula provides property maintenance and make ready services for property managers and homeowners. Take care of all of your maintenance needs in one place.
- Billee Technologies — Billee Technologies is a proptech startup that offers a comprehensive SaaS platform for property owners, aiming to transform utility bills through smart automation.
Moonshotvc is a venture capital firm that operates in Thailand. We invest in deep tech and industrial tech startup.
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Investment focus
- Lending, Internet, Communities
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Indonesia
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.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Financial Services, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Brazil, United States, Mexico
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.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Information Technology, FinTech, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- ILLA — Digital trucking and delivery platform powered by reliable drive to enable businesses with different volumes handle and optimize their trucking and logisitcs processes effeciently.
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
- Jetstream Africa — Jetstream monitors inventory and goods-in-transit for trade creditors and banks.
At Zenith, we believe that the beauty of life lies in the little things that give us a better expression of ourselves, make us more social and connect emotionally.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Incubators, Communities
- Seed, Debt Financing
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- ANOH Gas Processing Company — ANOH Gas Processing Company is a midstream gas company committed to the processing of gas from OML 53 for distribution to the local market.
- Nigeria Health Innovation Markeplace (NHIM) — Nigeria Health Innovation Marketplace (NHIM) is the country's foremost healthcare innovation platform focusing on impact investing in broad scale innovations in health, spurring social entrepreneurship, and connecting actors in the innovation ecosystem with the intent to leapfrog constrains and accelerate improvement in Nigeria's healthoutcomes. It was initiated by Mr. Bill Gates, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate, Mr. Jim Ovia, Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, and Mrs. Sola David Borha.
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
- Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
- Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
- Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.
VFD Group is an investment organization that provides products and solutions that are accessible to everyday citizens and entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United Kingdom
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- 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
- 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.
Reimagining our industry. So our clients can disrupt theirs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- OneAM — OneAM is revolutionizing cash flow management with cutting-edge solutions tailored for Business Owners and Capital Providers. Transform an account receivable into cash in just a few days.
- Blok — Prioritize the right experiments and simulate potential product decisions. Discover the future of product development driven by AI.
- AeroRx Therapeutics — AeroRx Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that developing proprietary, combination products.
Ire Aderinokun - Co-Founder , COO & VP of Engineering @ Buycoins
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Investment focus
- Software, Ticketing, Mobile Apps
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- ORDA — ORDA is a platform allowing guests to order and pay for food and beverage on a digital menu.
- tix.africa — Tix is a refreshing approach to event ticketing in Africa. Create and sell your first ticket from your phone in under 10 minutes.
- 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.
Bank the way you want to with Stanbic IBTC wide range of personal accounts to suit your needs. Contact us today for more information!
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Investment focus
- Energy, Mobile, Wireless
- Debt Financing, Seed, Post-IPO Debt
- Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
- 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.
- ANOH Gas Processing Company — ANOH Gas Processing Company is a midstream gas company committed to the processing of gas from OML 53 for distribution to the local market.
Oyster Ventures invests in exceptional new-frontier technology companies.
We target companies that bring liquidity and efficiency to antiquated industries, companies that enable globalization, and with the leverage to massively scale.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Sogni AI — Unleash creativity with the Sogni Supernet: a purpose-built DePIN protocol for Creative AI. Empowering Creative AI apps with unmatched speed and scale.
- Ridepanda — Employer sponsored leases on the widest selection of pedal bikes, e-bikes and e-scooters from top brands.
- Conductive.ai — Conductive.ai is an engagement platform for game developers to motivate players to increase player lifetime value.
Greentree Investment Comany is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Internet, Logistics
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria
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.
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