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Top 50 EdTech Startup Investors in Nigeria (November 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Nigeria EdTech startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Nigeria EdTech startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
8 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $100k–$4M
Injini
VC Fund
5 South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Education, EdTech, E-Learning $7k–$500k
Hesham Zreik
Angel
5 United States, India, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $10k–$5M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Microtraction
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $30k–$1.3M
Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed EdTech, Software, Retail $56k–$1M
Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon Pre-Seed, Grant Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Mobile, Software, Information Technology $1.9M–$20M
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
Future Africa
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$40M
Enza Capital
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech $120k–$31M
Antler
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Founder Collective
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $1M–$68M
Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $50k–$10M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$23M
Praxis
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Grant, Venture - Series Unknown Non Profit, Education, Social Assistance $200k–$16M
Ardent Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Software $100k–$15M
Frontier Learning Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, EdTech, FinTech $500k–$3.1M
54 Collective
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$2M
Growth Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown EdTech, Software, Medical $100k–$300k
L5lab
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed EdTech, Retail, Shopping
Timon Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech $100k–$30M
Prosper Otemuyiwa
Angel
1 Nigeria, Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Software, CRM $200k–$1M
Paul Kokoricha
Angel
1 Nigeria, Mauritius Private Equity, Seed Internet, Financial Services, B2B $20M–$200M
Kola Aina
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Non-Equity Assistance FinTech, Financial Services, Internet $100k–$3.2M
Brandon Krieg
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States Pre-Seed, Series B, Seed Insurance, FinTech, InsurTech $3.5M–$28M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $25k–$12M
Babs Ogundeyi
Angel
1 Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $780k–$6M
Niche Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, E-Commerce, Software $10k–$5.7M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $100k–$10M
Ed Robinson
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Insurance, InsurTech $3.5M–$28M
UNITED
VC Fund
1 Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Apps, Software, Information Technology $645k–$12M
LocalGlobe
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$30M
Owl Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Germany Series A, Series B, Seed Education, EdTech, E-Learning $3.5M–$50M
FMO
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, The Netherlands Debt Financing, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy $1.5M–$200M
Reflect Ventures
VC Fund
1 Pakistan, United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Logistics, Information Technology, E-Commerce $120k–$37M
Shola Akinlade
Angel
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Education, Insurance $192k–$4M
Untapped Global
VC Fund
1 Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services $1.2M–$3M
Zrosk Investment Management
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $200k–$33M
Rise Capital
VC Fund
1 Brazil, Mexico, Egypt Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Apps, Internet $2.5M–$60M
Nafiu Adenle
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed EdTech, Big Data, Software
Faster Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Bangladesh Pre-Seed EdTech, FinTech, Education
Yango Ventures
VC Fund
1 El Salvador, United Arab Emirates Seed B2B, FinTech, Delivery
FM Capital Group
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C Software, Big Data, EdTech $150M–$150M
EdTech investment fund
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed EdTech, Software
Bashar Hamood
Angel
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $7k–$5M
Musty Mustapha
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Education, InsurTech, Insurance $3.5M–$4M
Meta
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Canada Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $5k–$7.2M
Zedcrest Capital Limited
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Software, Financial Services $500k–$3.7M
Octerra Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $600k–$13M
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 8 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 173
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $84M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
  • Cybervergent — Start with your industry and see how Cybervergent delivers Digital Trust, from posture to proof, written for your context.
  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
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Injini
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 5 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Injini's EdTech Accelerator and Think Tank aims to support founders of African startups with a mission to improve educational outcomes across the region.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $39k–$500k; Grant $55k–$132k; Pre-Seed $7k–$40k
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Book Village — Together Let's End The Reading Crisis In South Africa Tutor Young South African Learners From Anywhere with Book Village. Sign up now to hear first...
  • Buddy Learning — Explore educational resources for families with Buddy Learning in the United States. Join us today!
  • The Marking App — The Marking App provides a data-free application that automatically marks handwritten school assessments while also automating school administration.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 5 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1191
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FellowMe — FellowMe is the APP for the people to follow their passions while they are connecting with other people in a simple way. Coming soon...
  • UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
  • Primelocation care givers foundation — Primelocation care givers foundation is the promoter and sponsor of an 80-bed secondary..
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 5 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 218
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Zazu — Manza is an all-in-one financial platform for African SMEs, helping businesses manage payments, automate cash flow, and access real-time financial insights from one simple dashboard.
  • Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
  • Udu Technologies — Explore GPU cloud and hardware through AGH Cloud, UduTech's flagship product, and AI advisory for teams in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and beyond.
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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Growwr — Tell Growwr who you need. Our AI hiring agent finds relevant talent, evaluates candidates, and helps you move from hiring brief to interview.
  • Paycrest — Unifying fiat and stablecoin payments globally, with speed, transparency, and built-in compliance.
  • Cr3dentials — Cr3dentials lets neobanks offer credit inside their app. We handle income verification, underwriting, capital, and collections. You keep the customer.
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Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Chinook Capital is focused on investments in seed- and pre-stage companies in internet software, services, and media sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Software, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$1M; Pre-Seed $56k–$350k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • Propel — Propel is building an ecosystem for the future of work. The core offering is a CaaS (Community-as-a-Service) powered platform that helps fast-growing, post-raise companies across the world fill their critical tech hires with world-class African talent, either for full-time, remote or hybrid roles.With a talent focus on emerging markets with highgrowth potential, Propel is currently building the largest combined community of tech ecosystems in Africa, providing talent in these communities with access to work, embedded finance and other extended community benefits.
  • Lifestores Pharmacy — Lifestores is a retail pharmacy start-up bringing disruptive innovation to the pharmaceutical sector in Nigeria by democratizing quality medicines and pharmaceutical services.
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Women Entrepreneurship for Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ORIKI — ORIKI is a luxury skin and hair care brand that fuses all-natural ingredients primarily sourced from the continent of Africa with scientific research to create extraordinary products.
  • Mukuru Clean Stoves — Mukuru Clean Stoves is a social enterprise The company is engaged in designing, producing and distributing improved, reliable and affordable cook stoves for low income households. The company's stoves are produced using locally sourced recycled waste metal enabling them to reduce production costs and make affordable products in the market.The company distributes its products through networks of local women business owners and microfinance institutions.
  • Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

TLCOM finds and funds exceptional founders building technology companies across Africa. Seed to Series C. Lagos, Nairobi, London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Satlyt — Satlyt helps satellites run AI and applications onboard, process data in orbit and work together as a network.
  • Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
  • LittleFish — Full stack enterprise platform that extends your infrastructure, instead of replacing it.
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 187
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $43M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
  • Nucleon Security — Nucleon Smart Endpoint, AI and Zero-trust powered EDR platform.
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
  • Talent Nation — Talent Nation trains and places AI engineers with businesses through its Learn2Earn academy.
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Enza Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 3 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $120k–$4M; Series A $3.6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $58M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Satlyt — Satlyt helps satellites run AI and applications onboard, process data in orbit and work together as a network.
  • Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market
  • Talent Nation — Talent Nation trains and places AI engineers with businesses through its Learn2Earn academy.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2394
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$611k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Praktiki — Praktiki is the AI platform for medical education: expert-led, case-based 5-minute modules HCPs love, built in hours and measured for behaviour change.
  • ReportsAI — ReportsAI is an impact operating system that automates data collection and reporting for NGOs and industry to ensure audit-ready compliance.
  • Plouton AI —
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Founder Collective
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control, entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible. Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 482
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $6M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $95M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Pagaleve — pagaleve offers payment in installments at PIX, with no interest and no credit card required. They provide merchants with a new payment method in order to increase their sales in a simple, uncomplicated, and agile manner, but they also want to provide people with the opportunity to buy what they want without committing to the card'shigh-interest rates and credit.
  • Altro Health — Lyv Health develops a healthcare infrastructure platform that enables wellness businesses to offer clinical services, including lab testing, prescription management, peptides, and clinician support. Its platform helps health coaches, gyms, medspas, and wellness providers integrate compliant healthcare services into their offerings, allowing them to expand care delivery and improve the client experience.
  • Meadowport — Meadowport is an AI-native ERP implementation that offers AI automation, integration, migration, and managed services.
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$4M; Pre-Seed $185k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • Tripesa — Control what AI coding assistants can install. Approve libraries, MCP servers, and extensions before they enter your codebase.
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series A $1.1M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

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.
  • TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
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Praxis
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

We are a creative engine for redemptive entrepreneurship, supporting founders, funders, and innovators motivated by their faith to love their neighbors and renew culture.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Non Profit, Education, Social Assistance
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 328
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$4.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ezra — Ezra provides a rewards platform with smart money management tools to support employee retention and financial wellness.
  • Orb Aerospace — Orb Aerospace builds resilient communications and autonomous systems that keep critical operations connected when infrastructure fails. Meet ARC Edge and Lassie.
  • Kokari Coconuts & Company — Ko-ka-ri means "let the good go around". We believe this is the magic of coconuts. At Kokari, we transform every part of the coconut into wholesome products made with simple, clean ingredients. Africa has always understood less is more.
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Ardent Capital
VC Fund · Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand · 2 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Leading Venture Capital & Builder in Southeast Asia | Experts in E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Fulfilment Startups | Seed, Series A Funding

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $100k–$400k; Series A $100k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $13M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Laborhack — LaborHack offers a select network of tested and certified carpenters, plumbers, electricians, masons, welders, and other tradespeople. It provides cleaning, plumbing, electrical, and HVAC services.
  • Trade Lenda — Trade Lenda is digital financial service solution enabling access to credit for MSMEs leveraging alternative data sources to qualify character and capacity in Nigeria.It’s a known fact access to finance is a major challenge for MSMEs with a $5trillion opportunity market across developing economies. According to reports from PWC and IFC, MSMEsaccount for about 84% of the jobs created in this region and about 50% of the GDP of the African economies. However without needed finance, most of them are likely to shut down within first 2-5 years. Today with our smart data algorithm, we leverage on data to evaluate character and capacity of every request thus removing focus on upfront collateral and cutting bottle necks associated to getting credits by MSMEs. We are not stopping there but also going a step further to provide micro savings, insurance, investment and pension soon for MSMEs.
  • Feather Africa — Feather Africa provides money transaction services, such as enabling users to send and receive money from anyone using the application. It offers withdrawals of cash without ATM cards by sending money to the nearest cash vendors.
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Frontier Learning Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Frontier Learning Capital specializes in supporting innovative Edtech and AI startups in developing nations, driving impactful change through dynamic investments and strategic partnerships.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, EdTech, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DCI.WIKI — DCI.WIKI provides a global, open system for registering and protecting research, creative content, and cultural heritage with unique Digital Content Identifiers.
  • Risely AI — Risely makes your institution an agentic campus. Every system lands on one record, every office gets agents that do the work, and your staff approves every move.
  • MySchool Portal Inc — “AI-powered infrastructure for academic institutions. We make education in Africa more affordable by offering multiple tools, such as a discount card that enables and empowers universities to provide student ID cards that allow students to receive discounted offers from participating merchants.”
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$2M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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Growth Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

We are Nigeria's first social innovation fund aimed at creating an unprecedented path to scale for outliers driving social change in Nigeria.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Software, Medical
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$200k; Pre-Seed $100k–$300k
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • Taeillo — Taeillo is a Furniture and Lifestyle Brand. We design and manufacture Furniture using local resources available with both local and modern technology to create premium furniture pieces with 99% Local content.
  • Delivery Science — Delivery Science is a technology company providing solutions to large organisations which provides data, visibility, and control to manage and monitor its distribution assets. Its product "FieldInsight" uses mobile forms to help large organisations in Africa with Field workers get data from the field.
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L5lab
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

L5lab Is involved in making seed stage investments in high potential tech-related companies, developing international partnerships to successfully extend proven business models into West Africa and the broader Sub-Saharan region as well as supporting management teams through the process of raising growth capital. L5lab offers its portfolio companies strategic management support & CEO mentoring, financing, office space and other administrative support services L5lab is also a partner in the accelerator programme 440NG

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Retail, Shopping
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Pass — Pass.ng is an exam preparation and testing platform that helps student prepare for Nigeria's most important examination right from the comfort of their mobile device or computer. Candidates are provided with mock questions, answers, analytical solutions, an opportunity to simulate the exam electronically, compete with fellow exam mates andfinally, track progress, and be the best.
  • BabyBliss — BabyBliss is a mom and baby business offering a collection of baby products for infants to toddlers from trusted local & international brands. With four stores located in Lagos, BabyBliss provides shoppers with a variety of products that will take you from newborn all the way to the teenage years.
  • DavtonLearn — Davtonlearn is powering modern DIY (Do it yourself) Learning & engagement management system with packaged content services for corporate organizations, enabling connected skilling for workplace relevance. We are focused on lowering the multiple barriers to adopting technology-based learning, including the costs associated with development,deployment, and maintenance through our proprietary e-learning solution that enable enterprises to have customized LMS and curated the future of work-related content in less than 30 minutes.
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Timon Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

At Timon Capital, they have tremendous respect for the entrepreneurial journey—especially in emerging markets. As former entrepreneurs, they have built companies and gone through the frustration of trying to manage wayward investors. They decided to hold themselves to a higher standard and named ourselves Timon: a Greek word that means ‘the oneinfluenced by honor’ as well as ‘fairly priced.’

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$4M; Series A $14M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
  • Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
  • OmniRetail — OmniRetail is a consumer goods distribution platform that solves the inefficiencies of traditional trade by digitizing key stakeholders through its products.
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Prosper Otemuyiwa
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Prosper Otemuyiwa is a Co-founder of forLoop Africa. He attended Babcock University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, CRM
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
  • Famasi — Famasi connects you to 1,000+ pharmacies in Nigeria. Find your medications, choose an offer and get them at your door in under an hour.
  • Sendchamp — Messagebird For Africa: Sendchamp provides Communication APIs & CRM for developers & businesses to reach their customers via different messaging channels such as SMS, Email, Voice, Whatsapp, and other digital messaging channels. Our APIs and No code tools help businesses in Africa from the stage of Customer Onboarding, CustomerEngagement, Customer Service & Customer Retention.
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Paul Kokoricha
Angel · Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Paul Kokoricha

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Financial Services, B2B
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Mauritius

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Private Equity $20M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WIOCC — Operating exclusively as a connectivity wholesaler in Africa, we deliver interconnected, carrier-scale digital infrastructure and technical services...
  • 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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Kola Aina
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Non-Equity Assistance
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $170k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Brandon Krieg
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $3.5M–$4M; Series B $28M–$28M
  • 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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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects to achieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund. The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies. They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aya Data — Aya Data provides high-quality data annotation, AI training data, 3D annotations, machine learning solutions and also specialises in geospatial, NLP and computer vision projects.
  • Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
  • Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
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Babs Ogundeyi
Angel · Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Cofounder and CEO of Kuda

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$6M; 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.
  • Maplerad — Global payment infrastructure for businesses.
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Niche Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Venture Capital firm

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $872k–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $10k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bemi — Trace and record PostgreSQL data changes. Seamless integration and 100% reliable audit trail.
  • Sytemap — We are building a blockchain-based property record to help home buyers and financial companies access, view and verify properties starting from digitizing Estate project layouts (Sytemap) Sytemap is a first step that allows us access to a large pool of property data. The end goal can really be described as building Zillow for Africa.
  • Monark Markets — Powering the future of private market distribution in the wealth channel.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 215
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
  • Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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Ed Robinson
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Insurance, InsurTech
  • Stage:Series B, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $3.5M–$4M; Series B $18M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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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UNITED
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

UNITED, Inc. is developing the smart phone app and the advertising technology business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $645k–$2.8M; Series A $868k–$6.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WAKA — WAKA is a studio that produces metaverse games and specializes in contract development for domestic businesses.
  • Rehabilitation 3.0 — Rehabilitation 3.0 focuses on a preventive medical system that provides AI assessment and tracking on health, exercise, mood, and wellness.
  • Movus Technologies — Movus Technologies Indonesia is automotive company that provides car ownership rental services.
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups, 28 in the past 12 months

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 461
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5.1M; Series A $4.2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Noah — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
  • Concretene — Concretene is a concrete alternative that is designed to provide a viable CO2 reduction technology in the construction industry for cementitious products. It is developed by Nationwide Engineering Research and Development (NERD) with the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC).
  • Talent Nation — Talent Nation trains and places AI engineers with businesses through its Learn2Earn academy.
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Owl Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Owl Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in education technology companies. The firm has invested in 24 companies across the education spectrum encompassing early childhood, K-12, higher education, and career mobility/professional learning. Owl leverages its deep domain expertise and takes an active hands-on approach to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses into transformative category-leading companies. The firm was founded in 2014 and has over $600 million in assets under management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 163
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$10M; Series A $5M–$29M; Series B $13M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $270M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Preply — Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.
  • DeweyLearn — Turn observed performance into expert feedback today, and a smarter organization tomorrow.
  • GrowthSchool — Whether it is Product, Growth, Design, Management, Tech & Data, Business, GrowthSchool is the place to learn from top experts in the field.
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FMO
VC Fund · The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: India, Kenya, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 212
  • Round size: Series B $5.3M–$46M; Debt Financing $5M–$200M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nefer Menya — Nefer Menya is a joint venture between Infinity Power and HAU Energy B.V.
  • Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.
  • Yednist' Group — Yednist’ Group is one of the largest agri-processing holdings in Ukraine operating in the following segments: production of bulk feed, packaged feed, premixes and concentrates; veterinary drugs distribution; pet goods distribution. Yednist’ Group operates five production facilities with a total annual capacity of 600 thousand tonnes, including 30thousand tonnes of premixes and concentrates.
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Reflect Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Reflect Ventures makes venture capital investments in high-potential startups at the seed and series A/B+ stages. We identify extraordinary founders, companies and opportunities around the world, including in emerging and frontier markets. Our LPs comprise family offices, institutional investors and HNWIs on six continents, along withrecognized sector experts who are instrumental to our portfolio companies' future growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Pakistan, United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$12M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3.3M; Series A $4M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoCement — Tempatnya jual beli bahan bangunan online terlengkap berkualitas dan harga murah di Indonesia. Cari kebutuhan alat dan bahan bangunanmu, hanya di GoCement
  • Jelt — HealthTech B2B Marketplace
  • VIVAN Therapeutics — VIVAN Therapeutics, a company pioneering personalized cancer therapeutics using a new assay technology. MPT licensed technology from the Center for Personalized Cancer Therapeutics at Mt Sinai New York and is launching the world’s most comprehensive, personal genomics-based, block-chain enabled drug screening service. All recommended treatmentcombinations will include a cancer drug and a non cancer drug, making treatments less toxic and more affordable. Intelligently designed personalized treatment. Revolutionary cancer care.
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Shola Akinlade
Angel · Sunnyvale, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Shola Akinlade s based out of Sunnyvale, California and currently works as the CEO for Paystack.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Education, Insurance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$4M; Pre-Seed $192k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
  • Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
  • 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.
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Untapped Global
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Paga — Paga is the premier financial services infrastructure for Africa. Infrastructure for fiat, stablecoins, crypto, hosted accounts, payments orchestration and biller aggregation.
  • OX Delivers — Our objective is to deliver affordable transport in emerging markets, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of economic growth and social impact. To achieve this, we are developing the world's first clean-transport ecosystem that combines goods shipment with financial, trading & marketing services. This OX ecosystem will be enabled by ourunique zero-emissions OX truck; the only purpose-designed electric vehicle for emerging markets.
  • FlexClub México —
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Zrosk Investment Management
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Alternative investment solutions: private credit, discretionary portfolios, and the Magna Specialized Fund.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M; Series A $7M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PaidHR — PaidHR works with organizations to streamline how they manage their staff. Our precisely created solutions enable them to create the ideal place to work.
  • Lingawa — Speak your native language with pride! Learn Yoruba and Igbo with fun, immersive online lessons for adults and kids (ages 5+).
  • Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
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Rise Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Rise Capital is a leading global venture capital firm focused on Emerging Markets

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Brazil, Mexico, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $3.9M–$15M; Series A $2.5M–$23M; Series B $11M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $7.7M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • SaveIN — SaveIN is your all-in-one Pay Later platform for healthcare, furniture, lifestyle, travel, consumer durables and more. Shop with 7000+ trusted merchants, split payments into No-cost EMIs, and enjoy seamless financing with zero down payment.
  • Homzmart — Homzmart is an e-commerce platform that sells home furniture, home décor, lighting, and home supplies. The company specializes in the fields of home improvement, eCommerce, home directory, technology, and home shopping. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Cairo, Al Qahirah.
  • InstaCarro — InstaCarro is an online platform that enables individuals to buy and sell cars. The company aims to add value both to individuals who want to sell their cars and to resellers.For individuals who want to sell, InstaCarro delivers the convenience of online quotes, higher than average prices and immediate payment after inspection. For buyers, itoffers online access to the large inventory of cars previously inspected and guarantees immediate return if a car purchased is in different conditions than reported. It was launched by Diego Fischer and Luca Cafici in July 2015 and is operated from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Nafiu Adenle
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

President & Chief Scientist @ Abbadh Labs

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Big Data, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Abbadh Labs — Abbadh Labs is an AI deep-tech startup committed to transforming fragmented data into clear, actionable insights through advanced autonomous research, predictive analytics, and decision-intelligence systems. Its work spans academia, healthcare, and national security, bridging the divide between sophisticated technology and practical simplicity toempower institutions, researchers, healthcare professionals, and data analysts.At the core of its academic solutions is SABABAT (Smart Automated Builder And Big Analysis Tool v4.0), Abbadh Labs’ flagship platform designed to fully automate and simplify the research lifecycle. SABABAT enables users to seamlessly generate key research components—including dissertation proposals, 5-Chapter thesis writing, and literature reviews while also supporting questionnaire design, dataset handling, and advanced statistical analysis.Built with an autonomous intelligence layer, the platform delivers structured, context-aware, and hallucination-controlled outputs within minutes, eliminating the traditional delays and complexities associated with quantitative research. With an average turnaround time of under four minutes, SABABAT provides a fast, code-free, and intuitive environment tailored for students, researchers, health professionals and data analyst, who require accuracy, speed, and clarity in their work.Abbadh Labs’ mission is to make advanced technology accessible to everyone while unifying Africa’s data to enable easier, more effective prediction and decision-making. Its vision is to establish Africa’s first Unified Data Lake, driving national development through predictive intelligence and high-stakes decision-making.
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Faster Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Faster Capital is an investment firm that operates in the financial industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, FinTech, Education
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Bangladesh

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Munafa — Munafa is a fintech startup that provides a SaaS platform designed to support small businesses. The platform offers tools for managing cash and credit, tracking inventory, generating profit and loss reports, and facilitating digital payments. Additionally, it provides free invoicing services with customizable company logos and utilizes AI tosuggest suitable banking products and forecast future cash flows.
  • Teachly — EdTech SaaS Platform
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Yango Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Investing in e-commerce, O2O, B2B SaaS, and FinTech startups across emerging markets, leveraging Yango's expertise to drive sustainable growth and innovation in dynamic regions worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, FinTech, Delivery
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: El Salvador, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trukkr — Real-time fleet tracking, route optimization, and ERP integration for logistics companies. Transform your supply chain operations today.
  • Comfi.ai — Unlock B2B Growth in MENA: Streamline Payments & Offer Credit with Comfi BNPL
  • boxful — Boxful provides ultra-fast fulfillment, shipping management, and a network of smart lockers to enable same-day or next-day deliveries for e-commerce brands and online sellers in Latin America.
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FM Capital Group
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

FM Capital Group LLC is a California registered investment advisory firm operating since August 20, 2014.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Big Data, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series C $150M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tekion — Tekion is a next gen, cloud-native platform with the power of Big data, Internet of Things (IoT) and ML/AI for the automotive retail industry.
  • SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.
  • DriveMe.ng — Rent-to-own EV financing, driver matching, and professional driver training in Lagos, Nigeria.
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EdTech investment fund
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

EdTech investment fund

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Codepym — Codepym is a Software company that is focused primarily on education. Since its inception in 2016, Codepym has continued to take giants strides in reinventing learning and inspiring people to make lifelong positive impact.With more than 100 institutions, (primary, secondary, tertiary, and learning centres), with over 50 staff, everything we dohas our clients at the epicentre.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 477
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$2M; Pre-Seed $7k–$500k; Series A $33k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
  • Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
  • 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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Musty Mustapha
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Musty Mustapha - Co-Founder and CTO @ Kuda

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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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Meta
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Meta is a social-technology company that offers a wide ecosystem of applications and hardware. Its Family of Apps includes platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads which allow people to communicate, share content, and form communities. On the hardware side, Meta’s Reality Labs develops virtual and augmented realitydevices, including Meta Quest headsets and smart glasses. Meta also builds artificial intelligence tools notably Meta AI, powered by its Llama large language models, and envisions long-term digital spaces in the form of a metaverse.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$5.7M; Grant $5k–$500k; Pre-Seed $35k–$7.2M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scale — Trusted by world class companies, Scale delivers high quality training data for AI applications such as self-driving cars, mapping, AR/VR, robotics, and more.
  • gett.me — AI outplacement software
  • Tyndall National Institute — Established with a mission to support industry and academia in driving research to market, Tyndall National Institute is one of Europe’s leading research centres in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) research and development and the largest research facility of its type in Ireland. Established in 2004 as a successor to the NationalMicroelectronics Research Centre (NMRC founded in 1982) at University College Cork, the Institute hosts over 460 researchers, engineers and support staff, including a full-time postgraduate cohort of 135 students, generating over 200 peer-reviewed publications each year.With a network of over 200 industry partners and customers worldwide, Tyndall generates around 30M income each year, 85% from competitively won contracts nationally and internationally. Tyndall is also a lead partner in European research programmes in its core areas of ICT, communications, energy, health and the environment worth 44M, including 6M accruing to industry in Ireland (from Framework 7). Hosting the only full CMOS, Micro-Electronic-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and III-V Wafer Semiconductor fabrication facilities and services in Ireland, Tyndall is capable of prototyping new product opportunities for its target industries - electronics, medical devices, energy and communications. Tyndall is a globally leading Institute in its four core research areas of Photonics, Microsystems, Micro/Nanoelectronics and Theory Modelling & Design. Tyndall is the lead institution for the Science Foundation Ireland funded Irish Photonics Integration Centre (IPIC).
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Zedcrest Capital Limited
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Zedcrest Capital is a full-service capital management firm, with core interests in fixed income securities trading, asset management and proprietary investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • PaidHR — PaidHR helps organizations manage their global employee life-cycle with an all-in-one people management software. Request a demo to see how PaidHR can help you scale your HR operations today.
  • Pade HCM — Hire, manage and pay your global team Hire anyone in Africa and automate onboarding, team management, payroll, compliance and much more.
  • Salus Cloud — Salus Cloud is an AI-native platform for engineers to develop and manage security.
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Octerra Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria EdTech startups

Octerra Capital is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$13M; Pre-Seed $600k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MANSA — Transforming The Way Money Moves. Backed by @tether_to
  • PBR Life Sciences — PBR Life Sciences connects businesses with real-world opportunities in life sciences by combining data, technology, and people.
  • Herconomy (Ex AGS Tribe) — Herconomy is a platform that allows women build their finances, capacity, collaborate and access opportunities.
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EdTech Investor funding in Nigeria at a glance

Stats across 227 deals from 168 investors.

168
investors
in Nigeria EdTech startups
227
deals
in Nigeria EdTech startups
$100k
median round
in Nigeria EdTech startups
55%
lead investors
lead at least one round
37%
Grant
most common funding stage
86/14
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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