Top 20 Digital Media Startup Investors in Nigeria in September 2025
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Digital media startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Digital media companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Digital Media Startup Investors in Nigeria in September 2025
Investor | Digital Media Nigeria investments |
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Future Africa | 3 |
Luminate Group | 2 |
RaliCap | 2 |
MaC Venture Capital | 2 |
Nama Ventures | 2 |
Unicorn Group | 1 |
Josh Jones | 1 |
Assembly Capital Partners | 1 |
Tayo Oviosu | 1 |
Walid Aradi | 1 |
Kepple Africa Ventures | 1 |
Kairos Angels | 1 |
TLcom Capital Partners | 1 |
Melo7 Tech Partners | 1 |
HoaQ | 1 |
Serena Ventures | 1 |
Ham Serunjogi | 1 |
Wes Schwalje | 1 |
Microtraction | 1 |
EchoVC Partners | 1 |
Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
- Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
- Filmmakers Mart — Find and book film locations, equipment, and services across Africa. Filmmakers Mart simplifies production logistics from start to finish.
Established in 2018, Luminate is a global philanthropic organisation with the goal of empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, GovTech, Politics
- Seed
- Canada, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
Rally Cap is a global community of tech folks investing in an exclusive portfolio of top-tier early stage venture funds in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Mexico, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
- Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
- Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.
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
- Blok — Prioritize the right experiments and simulate potential product decisions. Discover the future of product development driven by AI.
- Quilt Health — Quilt Health is a digital health company focused on improving access to innovative treatments for people living with rare and complex conditions, starting with sickle cell disease. The company leverages technology, data integration, and artificial intelligence to streamline clinical trial recruitment, enhance patient access to therapies, andstrengthen provider networks
- Carrot Credit — Carrot Credit is a financial services company that provides line of credit to the customers and businesses.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
- Nodes — Nodes.inc is building the world’s first AI-native, full-stack hiring platform designed to automate and optimize the entire talent lifecycle — from candidate sourcing to predictive onboarding. Powered by multi-agent systems and self-learning AI, Nodes eliminates outdated ATS workflows, bloated HR stacks, and manual recruiting processes.Theplatform goes beyond incremental improvements: it creates rich persona-based candidate profiles, autonomously headhunts across the internet, engages with passive talent using hyper-personalized outreach, and continuously retrains itself based on hiring outcomes. With performance-based pricing and a modular architecture, Nodes enables enterprises to reduce hiring time from 120 days to under 14, slash early-stage attrition, and ensure every hire is a high-fit hire.Backed by top operators and used by Fortune 500 companies, Nodes.inc is redefining the infrastructure layer for the future of work.
- Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
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Capital We provide infrastructure, training, mentorship, market access and patient capital for entrepreneurs, technology start-ups and early stage companies to address the challenges that they encounter.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Internet, FinTech
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Merge — Startup Funding | Investment Opportunities | Merge App
- Big Cabal Media — Big Cabal Media is a Nigerian digital media company making amazing content loved by young and passionate Africans everywhere
- Ubawa Technologies — A payment processing platform that helps social media entrepreneurs accept payments and increase their customer conversion and retention rate with our conversational AI chat bot.
Josh Jones is a Partner HMC INQ and Founder of Did I Err Productions. He is a former Co-Founder & CTO at DreamHost.
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Investment focus
- 3D Printing, Software, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Toybox Labs — Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home.
- FlyCoin — Flycoin is a first of its kind crypto-based rewards program that pays guests every time they fly or transact with our partners.
- Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Assembly Capital Partners operates as a Venture Capital.
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Investment focus
- SMS, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Instanda — Instanda is a SaaS insurance software platform that allows insurance companies to build, configure, and launch products online. Its no-code product design platform is built on a powerful set of insurance specific calculations, processing, and workflow capabilities.Instanda works with the carriers, MGAs, and brokers in UK, Europe, US, Canada, LATAMand Australia converting the lethargic back office to an agile front office, freeing the industry from high-cost legacy systems.Founded in 2012, Instanda is headquartered in London, England.
- Index Coop — Index Coop builds decentralized and exchange traded (ETF) crypto index funds based on web3 product themes. Buy & build your crypto assets investment portfolio with us today
- Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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.
Entrepreneur, investor. Advising global tech companies navigate through MENA+ regulatory environments, market entry and scaling
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, Nigeria, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Omnisient | Collaborative Consumer Intelligence — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.
- Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
- Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- 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.
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
An investment club partnering with visionary entrepreneurs to create disruptive and innovative companies that have the potential to be come regional leaders and global challengers. ideas@kairosangels.com
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
- Super Seguros — Super Seguros is an insurance company that developed radical insurance products. The company's automated assessment technology allows its users to buy a policy today and covered tomorrow. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal.
- Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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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Investment focus
- 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.
- Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
- littlefishapp — Littlefish is a comprehensive commerce platform that empowers banks to serve small business with tools to streamline operations, drive growth, and enhance customer engagement.
Melo7 Tech Partners, LLC was founded by Carmelo Anthony and Stuart Goldfarb to invest in and develop opportunities primarily in early stage digital media, consumer internet and technology ventures.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Digital Media, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
- Ambrosia — Industrial/Organic is an organic waste solutions provider that offers infrastructure-as-a-service to waste industry. The company converts food scraps into high-value resources in a distributed facility model.
- Mercury — Powerful banking. Simplified finances. Apply in 10 minutes for business banking that transforms how you operate.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo
Portfolio highlights
- Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
- Chowdeck — 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.
Serena Ventures focuses on early-stage companies and giving them the opportunity to be heard. Serena Ventures extends relationships, encourages collaboration among portfolio companies, and expands partnership opportunities across my vast network.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Rebels — Rebelstork was born to make Parenting Lighter. We are the largest tech-driven marketplace for baby gear in North America - diverting overstock and retailer returned baby gear away from landfills and into the homes of customers at a fraction of the retail price.
- KLIQ — Fitness Coaches, launch the app you've been dreaming of with no upfront costs. Build, manage and grow your community based business using our fully managed product.
- Pixeltable — Open Source Python framework that enables AI Engineers to focus on modeling and experimentation.
Ham Serunjogi is a co-founder and CEO at Chipper Cash.
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
- Sudo — Sudo is an open API platform that enables businesses to embed powerful financial features into their products. Build in minutes, launch in days.
- CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.
Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
- PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
- Chhotastock — ChhotaStock :Invest and Grow more.India's first small ticket size investment platform.
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
- 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.
- Intron Health — Intron provides clinical speech recognition for 200+ accents spoken in developing countries starting with Africa, reducing documentation time by 6x so doctors can spend more time with patients
- PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data
EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Rivy — We're building the financial infrastructure to make clean energy easy to afford, quick to access, and open to all.
- Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
- Snowstorm — Official site of the Snowstorm Network
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