Top 20 Digital Media Startup Investors in Nigeria in December 2024
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 December 2024
Investor | Digital Media Nigeria investments |
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Future Africa | 3 |
RaliCap | 2 |
Luminate Group | 2 |
MaC Venture Capital | 2 |
Unicorn Group | 1 |
Tayo Oviosu | 1 |
Walid Aradi | 1 |
Microtraction | 1 |
TLcom Capital Partners | 1 |
Assembly Capital Partners | 1 |
Kairos Angels | 1 |
Serena Ventures | 1 |
Wes Schwalje | 1 |
Kepple Africa Ventures | 1 |
EchoVC Partners | 1 |
Melo7 Tech Partners | 1 |
Ham Serunjogi | 1 |
Cascador | 1 |
HoaQ | 1 |
Nama Ventures | 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 globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
- Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
- Filmmakers Mart — FilmmakersMart is Africa’s first film and entertainment marketplace where entertainment businesses and creatives find verified services seamlessly for their video productions while democratizing entry into the film and entertainment industry for emerging creatives. We’re building the operations system for the film and entertainment industry inAfrica.
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
- Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
- 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.
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
MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Fin — Last mile delivery using e-cargo bikes in London. Faster, greener and cheaper deliveries. Zero emissions, zero congestion and warehousing.
- StoreCash — StoreCash is a digital bank built for teens and young adults. Unlock massive cashback rewards & learn financial literacy by signing up.
- Fully Ramped — Fully Ramped is for sales teams that prioritize phone calls. With the help of the voice AI platform Fully Ramped, your representatives may rehearse their phone sales techniques with simulated prospects who sound exactly like your clients. With many at-bats and various settings, practice pitching, resolving objections, product
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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.
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 — Secure Data Collaboration Platform platform that enables businesses to collaborate without compromising on consumer identity or information!
- 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.
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, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Pennee — Yana Finance provides up to 50 million Naira for ambitious business owners, with NDIC insured accounts. Yana Finance aims to simplify financial operations for businesses, ensuring they never run out of money and can manage cash flows efficiently.
- 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.
- Intron Health — Intron is the future of clinical documentation with real-time clinical speech-to-text for 200+ African accents, easing the transition to digitized care.
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
- 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
- Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
- 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.
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 — Digital insurance solution that enables carriers, brokers, and MGAs to design, build and launch insurance products. Learn more.
- 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.
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.
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
- Lolli — Lolli is a rewards application that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.The company has partnered with 1,000+ top brands to give people the ability to easily earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. When users shop on one of the partner sites, Lolli gets a percentage of each sale. The company then splits that percent with users, sendingbitcoin to users' Lolli wallet.Lolli was founded in 2018 by Alex Adelman and Matt Senter and is headquartered in New York, NY.
- Rebelstork — 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.
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.
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.
EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
- Snowstorm — Snowstorm is a decentralized microproxy network. Already proven in crisis zones, it must now evolve into a next-generation system and internet freedom tool.
- Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.
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.
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.
Cascador | Business Growth Accelerator for Mid-Stage Nigerian Companies Cascador is a business growth program for Nigerian entrepreneurs leading mid-stage companies, providing mentoring and access to advisors, and investors.
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Investment focus
- Analytics, Digital Media, Data Integration
- Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
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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 — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.
- Klas — Free Online Teaching Tool: Live Classes, Community | Klas
Nama Ventures is a seed stage venture capital fund focused on fueling innovation in the MENA region, particularly in Saudi Arabia. ama Ventures is built upon the fundamental idea of enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. And as founders of Nama, we are thrilled to finally have the platform to implement this idea. Our hope is that entrepreneurs willingto partner with us will see and feel our value-add approach to investing.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Nowlun — Search for cheap & fast freight prices from all shipping lines.
- PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
- 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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