Top 10 Education Angel Investors in Nigeria (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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2 | United States, Nigeria, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $50k–$5M |
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Raffael Johnen
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Germany, Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Payments, Software | $1.6M–$20M |
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Babs Ogundeyi
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $780k–$5M |
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Shola Akinlade
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Education, Financial Services | $181k–$4M |
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Brandon Krieg
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B | InsurTech, Insurance, Banking | $3.5M–$4M |
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Musty Mustapha
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | Education, InsurTech, Insurance | $3.5M–$4M |
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Bashar Hamood
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $5k–$5M |
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Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $100k–$5.1M |
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Paul Kokoricha
Angel
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1 | Mauritius, Nigeria | Private Equity, Seed | Internet, B2B, Software | $20M–$200M |
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Ed Robinson
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B | InsurTech, Insurance, Banking | $3.5M–$4M |
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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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 619
- Round size: Seed $53k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
- Ensure Petroleum Pvt Ltd — Ensure Petroleum Fuel & Refinery is a Pakistan-focused energy venture founded by Muhammad Irfan Younas, a former executive.
- Manufacturing Electronics Cards — it is a startup built on the idea of putting advanced electronics engineering expertise at the service of local and regional businesses.
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".
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- 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.
Cofounder and CEO of Kuda
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- 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.
Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.
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- Industry: FinTech, Education, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$4M; Pre-Seed $181k–$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.
- Earnipay — Earnipay is Nigeria's trusted e-invoicing partner. As an accredited NRS and NITDA systems integrator, we deliver secure, compliant invoicing for every business.
- 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.
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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- 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.
Musty Mustapha - Co-Founder and CTO @ Kuda
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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.
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- 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
- Simulon — Studio-quality VFX on a mobile. Sign up to the Simulon beta.
- 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.
Paul Kokoricha
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- 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.
Ed Robison is a Co-Founder of Stash. He attended the University of Sydney from 2002 to 2004.
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- 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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