Top 10 EdTech Angel Investors in Nigeria (June 2026)

Ed Robison is a Co-Founder of Stash. He attended the University of Sydney from 2002 to 2004.

Investment focus

Industry: InsurTech, Insurance, Banking
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
Geography: Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Round size: Pre-Seed $3.5M–$4M
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.

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Brandon Krieg is the Co-Founder of Collective Returns, Inc. and has been its Chief Executive Officer since July 11, 2016. Brandon Krieg served as the President of Collective Returns, Inc. until July 11, 2016 and serves as its Executive Director.

Investment focus

Industry: InsurTech, Insurance, Banking
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
Geography: Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Pre-Seed $3.5M–$4M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.

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Paul Kokoricha

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, B2B, Software
Stage:Private Equity, Seed
Geography: Mauritius, Nigeria

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Round size: Private Equity $20M–$200M
Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

WIOCC — WIOCC is revolutionising the delivery of high-capacity connectivity between Africa and the rest of the world. As a result, it is now widely recognised as Africa’s carriers’ carrier, offering a one stop-shop and end-to-end service between more than 30 African countries and the world’s key global financial and commercial centres. As a specialist inthe wholesale market, WIOCC’s unique, flexible, bandwidth packages have been designed to enable carriers, mobile operators and internet service providers (ISPs) to take full advantage of Africa’s rapidly developing markets for fixed and mobile broadband and international corporate networking. WIOCC recognises that customers differ, and tailors many of its solutions to specific customer requirements.
Decagon — Build faster with vetted remote software engineering talent
Accelerex Holdings — Accelerex Holdings specializes in the fields of financial services and investments.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

Total investments: 36
Round size: Seed $700k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.1M
Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

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.

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Gbite Oduneye is the Founder and Managing Partner of ODBA. He attended UWE Bristol and Said Business School, University of Oxford.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Education
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 28
Round size: Seed $200k–$10M; Pre-Seed $180k–$3.5M
Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
Cashmere App — Helping millennials and Gen Z's save up for their favourite luxury goods and experiences
Kuda — Kuda is a full service digital only bank with a mission to bank every African on the planet. Kuda was founded in 2019 by Babs Ogundeyi and Musty Mustapha and is Headquartered in London

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Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

Investment focus

Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 326
Round size: Seed $10k–$780k; Pre-Seed $5k–$500k; Series A $15k–$5M
Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

SafeNest — SafeNest offers a comprehensive home security system integrating smart technology with professional monitoring services.
G Super Races — G Super Races aims to revolutionize the global horse racing scene with its premier league.
ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.

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Cofounder and CEO of Kuda

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan

Investor stats

Total investments: 11
Round size: Seed $2M–$5M; Pre-Seed $780k–$4M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
24SEVEN — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.

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Musty Mustapha - Co-Founder and CTO @ Kuda

Investment focus

Industry: Education, InsurTech, Insurance
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Round size: Pre-Seed $3.5M–$4M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.

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Raffael Johnen is CEO and founding partner of auxmoney. Already during his business studies, Raffael Johnen founded his first startup company. He later worked for six years at Investmentbank Rothschild in Frankfurt in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Debt Advisory areas, most recently as Vice President. Raffael Johnen is also the founder ofExcellion Capital, a successful company in corporate finance consulting and investment, based in London. As a writer, he made a name for himself when he wrote the chapter on leveraged buyouts in the "Praxishandbuch Unternehmensbewertung".

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Payments, Software
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Nigeria, Germany, Australia

Investor stats

Total investments: 9
Round size: Seed $1.6M–$14M; Pre-Seed $3.2M–$3.5M; Series A $15M–$20M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Weel — Weel is the all-in-one platform for finance teams. Issue smart corporate cards, automate accounts payable, and control company spend, all in one place.
Weel — Weel is the all-in-one platform for finance teams. Issue smart corporate cards, automate accounts payable, and control company spend, all in one place.
Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.

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