Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Nigeria in May 2026
Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Nigeria in May 2026
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- CurbWaste — A software by haulers, for haulers
- Reserv — We are a premier claims platform, born from state-of-the-art data intelligence and talent management technology.
- CipherOwl Inc — CipherOwl delivers AI-powered digital asset intelligence and automation tools for institutions, helping banks, exchanges, and crypto teams manage risk, ensure compliance, and operate with confidence.
We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
- Mvxchange — MVX makes freight shipping easier and more coordinated for companies of any size by bringing the whole booking and deployment process online. We simplify Africa’s end-to-end import and export trade transactions by aggregating and organizing 7+ services through 1 digital channel.
- Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
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- FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Lightning Ventures is an exclusively Bitcoin focused network of investors, operators, and developers, dedicated to supporting Lightning Network adoption worldwide
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- Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- JAN3 — JAN3 provides technologies and solutions for individuals, enterprises, and nation-states to prepare for the future built on Bitcoin.
- Vida — Vida is the AI Agent Operating System for enterprises. Build, deploy, and manage AI agents that call, text, email, and chat at scale with no-code tools.
- OrdinalsBot — We make it easy to inscribe ordinals. Like, really easy.
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Information Technology, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- ILLA — ILLA Trucking for Logistics Solutions & Distribution
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
- Jetstream Africa — Jetstream monitors inventory and goods-in-transit for trade creditors and banks.
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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- 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.
- SEND — SEND manages the entire process of moving freight by air, ocean and road to and from Africa - including customs processes, trucking and warehousing. Our application provides instant quotes & bookings, document management, cost transparency, notifications and tracking for your cargo.
- Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
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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- 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.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- Paycrest — Paycrest decentralized payment routing protocol enabling secure conversion and settlement between stablecoins and fiat.
- Accounteer — Accounteer is a cloud accounting platform for small businesses. Business owner can create invoices, track expenses and follow up on their finances with ease. Accounteer integrates with external services like banks, e-invoicing platforms and e-commerce. Future proof your business today by subscribing for a free Accounteer trial account.
- LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
- Finland, Sweden, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
- Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Cristina Santin
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- FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.
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- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
- Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
- Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Tomiwa Olaosebikan
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Andela — Unlock the power of global tech talent with Andela. Hire experienced professionals quickly and cost-effectively. Build your team from our robust network of skilled specialists spanning 175 countries. Our AI-powered platform ensures a 96% talent match success rate. Get started now and hire with confidence.
- Matta — Matta is a B2B platform offering a comprehensive, detailed marketplace for sourcing chemicals and materials efficiently and reliably
- Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
We support the best teams in fintech and defi today.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Confido — Confido is a software company that provides financial operations automation for consumer packaged goods brands. Confido helps CPG brands save time and money by automating cash applications, fighting deductions, and tracking trade costs in a platform. The company is based in New York, New York.
- Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
- Rainforest — Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing. Rainforest is headquartered in Atlanta, United States.
HashKey Capital is an investment firm.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Arf — Arf, a VISA Innovation Program company, is a global #payment network enabling instant and fully compliant fiat-to-fiat #cross-border payments by leveraging regulated stablecoins for #financial institutions, especially EMIs, PIs, MSBs, ewallets, neobanks and digital #remittance companies.
- Obita — Obita provides enterprise-grade borderless payment infrastructure for fiat and compliant stablecoins, supporting global collections, payouts, and treasury operations.
- aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
DeSpace, $DES is cross-chain multi-platform DeFi & NFT aggregator, powered by our own blockchain DeChain, which makes interoperability possible!
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- Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Web3
- Seed
- Nigeria, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- FarmBit — FarmBit is an open marketplace that allows businesses to obtain working capital.
- MELD — MELD is the first DeFi, non-custodial, banking protocol. You can securely lend & borrow both crypto and fiat currencies with ease and stake your MELD tokens for APY.
- Vibra — The Easiest & Safest way to learn, trade and invest crypto. Vibra - a crypto investment app has a wide variety of functions like OTC buy & sell, trading, as well as community that empowers Africans to control their future wealth and make trades with a community of experts
Olawale Ajayi
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- Apps, FinTech, Finance
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Skye Wallet — Africa’s Simplest Cryptocurrency Wallet & Exchange App (Mobile & Web): Launched on the 12th of April 2021, transacted N500M+ ($1M)+ volume in the first 16 weeks of launch and figure keeps growing. Access to over 10 top Cryptocurrency (Coins/Tokens) and have infrastructure to integrate up to 100 more tokens in few months.
Founded in 2017, Krypital Group is a leading global venture capital firm and blockchain incubator. Vested in a complete blockchain ecosystem, the company has specific investment funds for both primary and secondary markets, as well as providing end-to-end services such as project incubation, brand management and technical advisory. To date,Krypital Group has active arms in North American, Asia and Latin American.
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- Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.
- Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
- Ink Finance — Ink Finance is the scalability solution for web3 DAOs, protocols and asset managers, enabling them to customize asset management and governance frameworks through a no-code interface, to effectively establish on-chain credit and financial competence. Ink Finance allows a one-stop and frictionless solution for organized financial activities, with scalability and customizability.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Kelp DAO — Kelp is a top liquid restaking protocol with $2B+ TVL. Restake Ethereum (ETH) and other assets while maintaining liquidity with rsETH, live on 40+ DeFi platforms. Maximize your DeFi restaking rewards today.
- ZAP — ZAP offers a reputation-based token distribution protocol that supports fair rewards for user contributions within the Blast ecosystem. It enables users to participate in various projects through missions and seamless investment options. Additionally, ZAP is expanding its services to other blockchains and developing tools to simplify access toventure-capital-backed projects.
- Kernel — Kernel is leading the way in restaking on the BNB Chain, which is intended to speed up innovation and ecosystem expansion while offering decentralized shared security.
LeadBlock Partners is a EU venture capital fund.
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- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kiln — Stake your treasury directly, or bring staking to your users through our whitelabel product.
- Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
- Token Terminal — Token Terminal gives you the tools to evaluate and track the most promising crypto projects.
Nehikhare Igbinijesu
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
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- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
Dunbar Capital is an investment firm.
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- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed
- Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Zuvy Technologies — Zuvy is a free invoice management software that enables your business to get cash today for unpaid invoices. Get started sending invoices via WhatsApp
15 years of experience in private equity, venture capital, investment banking, corporate strategy, angel investing, and business development having an MBA from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA and being a CAIA Charterholder.
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- FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Egypt, India
Portfolio highlights
- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
- Otida — Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
For Angels, By Angels
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- FinTech, Payments, B2B
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Vietnam, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Hello Clever — Connect every rail and understand every payment. Unify your payment infrastructure with Clever AI to instantly turn transaction data into measurable growth.
- Hello Clever — Connect every rail and understand every payment. Unify your payment infrastructure with Clever AI to instantly turn transaction data into measurable growth.
- Sehat Kahani — Book online video appointments with the best Doctors and Specialists, such as Skin Specialists, General Physician, Child Specialists, etc in Pakistan.
Global Investors in Transformative Technologies
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- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Wyre — Wyre is a developer of a blockchain-based payment platform designed to change the future of how international payments are done. The company's platform provides real-time payouts, same-day transfers, and direct-to-bank transfers, enabling businesses to move money across borders from country-to-country at a competitive foreign exchange rate.Wyre's business owners can easily create an account and send money to any person or business without worrying about high foreign exchange rates, hidden fees, complicated payout timing, and high payment fees. It also provides onramps and off-ramps, foreign exchange, and crypto liquidity to users of various crypto projects including decentralized exchanges.Wyre was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Casa — Casa is the leading provider of Bitcoin self-custody solutions. Buy, sell, and receive bitcoin with our ultimate blend of security, privacy, and control.
- Validation Cloud — Discover enterprise-grade staking and node infrastructure: Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Enjoy secure, fast, and reliable staking and node services with Validation Cloud.
Rene Reinsberg is the Co-Founder and President of Celo.
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- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Partna — We're democratising access to crypto by providing tools that help businesses build user-friendly crypto products.
- Fountain — Fountain operates in the finance industry, providing a wallet platform specifically designed for teams. The platform allows users to create permission-controlled wallets in a matter of seconds, offering a centralized location for managing all transactions and treasury. In addition to its wallet services, Fountain also offers a unique way to enjoypodcasts, further diversifying its product offerings. With a team of six, Fountain continues to innovate in the realm of finance and entertainment.
- Capsule Wallets — At Capsule, we thrive on challenging the design of products we use every day. In doing so, we hope to introduce you to a simpler way of living.
MyAsia VC
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- 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.
Oluchi Enebeli
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
Peter Kisadha - Founder and CEO @ Digest Africa
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
Polymath Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies with an emphasis on community, longevity, and financial democratization. As an operator-led firm, we partner with ambitious founders to build the next generation of market-changing companies.
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- Software, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Ozone — Meet Ozone, your AI-powered video editor.
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- Integrated Biosciences — Integrated Biosciences is the first company in history to be able to virtually stress cells.
TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.
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- Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
- Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
- littlefishapp — Littlefish is a comprehensive commerce platform that empowers banks to serve small business with tools to streamline operations, drive growth, and enhance customer engagement.
Sean Mahsoul
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- FinTech, Computer, Software
- Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
On a mission to back the most extraordinary entrepreneurs out of Africa solving important problems in large markets.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
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- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Bujeti — Bujeti is the finance control centre for African businesses. Manage expenses, automate payments, and issue corporate cards for total control and visibility.
- Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
Lateral Frontiers is a venture capital fund.
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- SaaS, Lending, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- LipaLater — LipaLater is a lending marketplace that provides postpaid payments at e-commerce stores. They are making technology affordable for you. Get the electronic of your choice today and pay for it in comfortable monthly installments.
- SeamlessHR — Africa's Leading HR & Payroll Software - Empowering African Businesses for Productivity and Profitability Through Technology.
- Vibra — The Easiest & Safest way to learn, trade and invest crypto. Vibra - a crypto investment app has a wide variety of functions like OTC buy & sell, trading, as well as community that empowers Africans to control their future wealth and make trades with a community of experts
Adeniyi Adesuyi
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- FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Seed
- Nigeria
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- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Hacked Capital invests in the next generation of startups and digital assets.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Scalex — Scalex is leading Africa into cryptocurrency and Web3 adoption by building ramp infrastructures to scale businesses and secure crypto-to-fiat transactions for individuals.
- Spring in Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.
Bonfire Ventures leads Seed rounds for business software solutions company founders transforming the industries they target.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, France
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- Alvys — Alvys is a cloud-based transportation management system with high-tech automation. Specializing in workflow efficiency for small to mid-size carriers. Alvys stands out by saving carriers and freight brokers more time per load than any other TMS! Save up to 30 minutes per load, organize your operations in one place, scale with ease and integrateall your favorite tools. The proof is in the workflows and here's a sneak peek of our popular features:• Driver App • Tracking & Tracing • Source for Truck Capacity • End-to-End Visibility • One Click Accounting • Analytics & Reporting • Safety & Maintenance • Integrations • Benefits for BrokersTRY US FOR FREE! www.alvys.com
- Boulevard — See why Boulevard is the fastest-growing client experience platform. Boost bookings. Optimize your calendar. Automate marketing. Streamline payments. Maximize revenue.
- Jeeva AI — Jeeva AI provides a sales automation platform that delivers products and services centered on agentic-AI workflows for prospecting and engagement. The platform offers automated lead discovery that identifies decision-makers across numerous data sources and enriches records with missing contact and firmographic details. It includes tools forgenerating personalized outreach through email and LinkedIn, enabling consistent communication based on role, industry, and observed behavior. Jeeva AI also supplies inbox and calendar management services that draft replies, prepare meeting briefs, schedule calls, and record notes to reduce manual administrative tasks. These combined capabilities create a unified environment that supports sales teams and individual sellers throughout the prospecting and engagement cycle.
Century Oak Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in Europe and Emerging Markets.
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- FinTech, Retail, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
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- Luna POS — Luna POS provides cloud-based cashier, inventory management, and accounting solutions for SMEs in Indonesia. The company offers a seamless mobile cloud-based Point of Sale (POS) and accounting system, helping the retail industry with managing business activities such as checking the stock of goods, making a bundle menu, calculating sales, and tosee financial statements of the business.
- Unbox — Unbox is the branded commerce operating system for SMEs helping them to sell online and increase their sales. We provide a ready to sell platform that allows entrepreneurs to digitize their business in less than 5 minutes - fully integrated with social commerce channels and our payment and shipping solutions, helping SMEs to save costs andcentralizing sales into a single platform.
- SnappRetail — SnappRetail aims to create the largest virtual retail franchise across Pakistan, through deployment of its POS hardware/software, focusing on:1. Traditional trade Analytics for brands and retailers 2. Order Aggregation for manufacturers and distributors 3. Payment Solution for customers 4. Fintech enablement for small merchantsTheSnappRetail POS application has been carefully curated keeping the retailer in mind, the application focuses on digitizing his shop operations and cash flow and creating a real-time tertiary sales data lake.
Yolo Investments is focusing on late seed & series A stage investments in igaming, fintech and crypto.
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- Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Sports
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Meld — Meld empowers developers to build a Multi Vendor Fintech stack. With a few lines of code, developers gain access to a wide range of financial integrations across multiple domains. Meld helps you lower your overall 3rd party vendor costs, increase coverage and conversion rates, and save you time by launching integrations across markets faster. Weprovide performance analytics for every provider you integrate with - putting you back in control of your fintech stack.
- Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
- Coverd, Inc. — Finances made easy
Vasco Martinho
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- FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Valar partners with entrepreneurs globally and believes that an increasing number of transformative technology companies will be started outside of Silicon Valley, and that the founders of those companies will benefit from having a partner that understands their unique challenges andopportunities.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Germany, Canada
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- Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
- SILQ — SILQ is a platform dedicated to bridging economies and empowering businesses to trade, grow, and navigate new frontiers. By enabling seamless commerce, logistics, and finance, SILQ unlocks opportunities in emerging economies, fueling ambitions and redefining global trade.The name SILQ is a modern tribute to the legendary Silk Road—reimagined forthe digital age. The distinctive “Q” comes from Souq, the Arabic word for marketplace, symbolizing our commitment to fast, accessible, authentic, and reliable commerce.SILQ aspires to transform local products and manufacturers into global brands by connecting them with entrepreneurs in emerging markets across the Gulf, South Asia, and beyond.
- Bound — Bound helps SME's protect themselves from currency risk, whilst using technology to simplify the process. We aim to help the 78% of SME's who are at risk of losing money everyday
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
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- Salus Cloud — Salus Cloud is an AI-native platform for engineers to develop and manage security.
- Nucleon Security — Nucleon Security is a cybersecurity software company that develops advanced, AI-powered endpoint protection solutions based on Zero Trust principles. Our mission is to help organizations of all sizes detect, prevent, and respond to cyber threats in real time—without compromising performance, usability, or sovereignty.At the core of our offeringis Nucleon EDR, a next-generation Endpoint Detection & Response platform designed to provide deep visibility, proactive defense, and automated response capabilities. Complemented by our MDR (Managed Detection & Response) services and Malprob, our malware detonation sandbox, we deliver a comprehensive security stack that adapts to evolving threat landscapes.Headquartered in France with operations across Europe and Africa, Nucleon Security partners with critical infrastructure, governments, and enterprises to strengthen their cyber resilience and accelerate secure digital transformation.
- 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.
Fenbushi Capital is the first and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firm in Asia. Founded in Shanghai in 2015 by veterans across both blockchain and traditional financial industries, it has to date supported over 80 leading projects across 4 continents leveraging blockchain technology to reshape myriad industries such as finance,healthcare, supply chain, and consumer goods. Fenbushi’s mission is to drive healthy and sustainable growth in the global blockchain ecosystem, and actively works as a long-term strategic partner to its portfolio projects.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, China
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- Canza Finance — We are an Open Finance Portal enabling access to unlimited financial services for emerging markets, backed by Polychain, Avalanche, CoinMarketCap...
- OceanEx — OceanEx is one of the fastest-growing and reputable cryptocurrency exchange.
- AlchemyNFT — AlchemyNFT is a non-fungible token (NFT) service.
We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.
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- Retail, Internet, Payments
- Seed
- Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa
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- Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
SNZ Holding was founded by a group of engineers, blockchain evangelists.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, Hong Kong
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- Anichess — Anichess develops a decentralized chess game.
- EarlyFans — Welcome to EarlyFans! A new way to find your favorite creators, support them early, and get rewarded for it.
- CELL Studio — A blockchain software development company with a dedicated focus on the BTC ecosystem, committed to advancing the Nervos BTCKB initiative
Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Kenya, Zambia
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- Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
- MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
- Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
Endeavor Catalyst is the co-investment fund set up to invest exclusively in led companies
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
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- Gathern — Gathern is a booking platform of private villas, chalets, rest houses, camps, resorts, farms and other places suitable for gatherings.
- ZAR — ZAR is a financial software company that develops a digital dollar wallet designed to bridge the gap between cash-based economies and Web3.
- Woba — Woba is a software that provides an ecosystem with work solutions for office and remote teams.
Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Education
- Pre-Seed
- Rwanda, Nigeria, United States
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- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
- Nandi Labs — Nandi Labs, Home of Nandi Cowry, Digital FESTAC and MoveMint Magazine
- AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
Greenhouse Capital Partners invests in B2B technology solutions that improve resource efficiency, drive climate change resiliency and unlock new value streams across legacy industrial supply chains and infrastructure.
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- Software, Financial Services, Manufacturing
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Nigeria, Mauritius
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- Revive Kombucha — Since 2010, we have been brewing up beverages that taste as good as they are good for you! Revive is the healthy alternative to soda. Our award winning and innovative new Revive Sparkling Kombucha line; with 5g sugar, 20 calories and 5 billion probiotics, is your delicious and healthy adventure ready partner in a can.
- Impact Laboratories — Impact Laboratories collaborates with labs in the commercial, biotech, pharmaceutical, and academic sectors.
- Linkage Biosciences — Linkage Biosciences is a molecular diagnostics company developing products that hope to improve and expedite complex genetic testing. Their initial focus is on diagnostic products for solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation where their proprietary technology will have an impact. The company offers human leukocyte antigen testingproducts used in solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, as well as provides pharmacogenomic and autoimmune disease testing and research and genetic marker tests.Lingkage Biosciences was founded in 2004 and is based in
Kola Aina is an entrepreneur, technology operator and investor with vast experience working in Africa’s largest economic market. His prior entrepreneurial experience spans several sectors including venture capital, technology, media, agriculture, infrastructure, publishing and real estate. As an angel investor and while leading the early stageAfrican VC firm Ventures Platform. Venture Platform is a leading early stage African VC fund that provides founder friendly capital and support to early stage companies in a framework that is buoyed by corporate governance and hands-on support. Kola has lead investment in about 28 companies including Payments company; Paystack, Connectivity company; Tizeti, Healthcare company; MDaaS and the Agric-tech company; Thrive Agric.Kola, founded the enterprise technology company Emerging Platforms Limited, 9 years ago, quickly growing it to become one of the leading technology service delivery companies and leaders in the e-learning space in West Africa providing services to over 100,000 students. Emerging Platforms Limited is a software and technology firm that specializes in developing innovative technology solutions in education, national security and enterprise sectors.Prior to focusing on full time entrepreneurship, Kola worked in corporate finance, administration, corporate turn-around and strategy. He led strategy and finance for one of the largest publishing companies in Nigeria up till 2009. Before that he worked in corporate finance proving financial analysis at Fifth Third Bank in the USA.Kola is a leader in the African startup and investing ecosystem, a Ted speaker and volunteers his time advising founders, speaking at events and serves on the Presidential Committee for Job Creation and Youth Employment as well as the Private Sector Advisory Group to the Presidency on Creativity and Technology. Kola studied Electrical Engineering and then secured a Master in Business Administration degree with a specialization in Finance from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He has received further education from Berkley University, Harvard University and the Lagos Business School.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
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- Partna — We're democratising access to crypto by providing tools that help businesses build user-friendly crypto products.
- Coinprofile — Coinprofile allows anyone, anywhere in the world send money to Africa. It's fast, seamless and free!
- Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
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