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Top 15 Education Angel Investors in Nigeria (October 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Nigeria Education startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Nigeria Education startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Hesham Zreik
Angel
5 United States, India, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $10k–$5M
Paul Kokoricha
Angel
1 Nigeria, Mauritius Private Equity, Seed Internet, Financial Services, B2B $20M–$200M
Bolaji Balogun
Angel
1 Nigeria, Kenya Seed Apps, EdTech, FinTech $350k–$3M
Yasir Mehmood
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed EdTech, Education
Adedoyin Adekoniye
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed Software, Education, E-Commerce
Tseyi Hammond
Angel
1 Nigeria Angel E-Learning
Monsuru Ajenifuja
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed EdTech, Internet, Smart Cities
Babs Ogundeyi
Angel
1 Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $780k–$6M
Gbite Oduneye
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care $43k–$10M
Prosper Otemuyiwa
Angel
1 Nigeria, Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Software, CRM $200k–$1M
Musty Mustapha
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Education, InsurTech, Insurance $3.5M–$4M
Raffael Johnen
Angel
1 Nigeria, Germany, Australia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Payments, Financial Services $1.6M–$20M
Nafiu Adenle
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed EdTech, Big Data, Software
Brandon Krieg
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States Pre-Seed, Series B, Seed Insurance, FinTech, InsurTech $3.5M–$28M
Kola Aina
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Non-Equity Assistance FinTech, Financial Services, Internet $100k–$3.2M
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 5 investments in Nigeria Education 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: 1175
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EasyBusy — EasyBusy is a contractor-client matching platform designed to address key challenges in the GCC service and construction economy.
  • Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
  • JLC Industry Of Tomato Paste Sarl U — JLC Industry is a Togolese agro-industrial startup dedicated to the production, processing, and commercialization of tomato concentrate.
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Paul Kokoricha
Angel · Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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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Bolaji Balogun
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Education startups

Bolaji Balogun is the Founder and CEOof Unilever Nigeria. He previously worked at Lafarge Africa Plc as a Chairman. Bolaji Balogun attended The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, EdTech, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OkHi — Smart addressing for emerging markets. Enabling businesses to collect an accurate address, navigate to it without getting lost and verity it remotely.
  • Rivy — Access flexible financing for solar energy projects with Rivy. Power homes, businesses, and communities with clean, affordable energy.
  • 9jacodekids — Coding, Programming, Robotics in Port Harcourt, Abuja and Lagos. We empower kids ages 4-16 to start creating their own games, mobile apps, websites, robots.
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Yasir Mehmood
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Education startups

Yasir Mehmood

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Chipanzy — Chipanzy is an EdTech that provides education and online courses designed for creatives and made for everyone. It was founded in 2023 and is located in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Adedoyin Adekoniye
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Education startups

Founder / CEO @ Acodeclass

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Acodeclass — Advanced Code Class is a learning ground for all, we teach you to code(HTML, CSS, JS, Vue, React, PHP, Asp.Net, MVC Core etc.)
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Tseyi Hammond
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Education startups

Non Executive Director @ Comic Republic

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Comic Republic — Comic Republic Global Network is a Nigerian comic character franchise that produces digital comic books to tell more compelling stories of Africa and her rich culture: inspire a movement of people who believe they can influence change
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Monsuru Ajenifuja
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Education startups

Monsuru Ajenifuja

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Internet, Smart Cities
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • FroNet — FroNet is revolutionizing internet access across Africa by deploying high-speed Wi-Fi and satellite technology in various public and private spaces. Their innovative approach ensures unlimited internet for residential and business customers, eliminating data caps. By providing satellite-backed subscription-based WiFi-as-a-service, FroNet caters todiverse market segments, reaching small cities plagued by unreliable and inconvenient internet access. This seamless service empowers users with limitless WiFi, transforming connectivity experiences in both mature and growing cities across the continent.
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Babs Ogundeyi
Angel · Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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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Gbite Oduneye
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Nigeria Education startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$10M; Pre-Seed $43k–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EATO — EATO is a media-led African culture and lifestyle platform — connecting Africa to the world through community and commerce, starting with food.
  • Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
  • Treepz — Treepz is using technology to help people move efficiently in Africa. Be it for daily, inter-city or corporate commutes, users can book predictable, reliable and comfortable trips through a world-class, demand-responsive app all at the tap of a button.Treepz was founded in 2019 and operates in 4 African countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Ugandaand Kenya. It is headquartered in Ontario, Canada.
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Prosper Otemuyiwa
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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 — Find, Order & Refill medications across 1000+ pharmacies in Nigeria. Delivered in 1 hour. Compare prices, get the best offers, and enjoy free monthly delivery on recurring orders.
  • 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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Musty Mustapha
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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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Raffael Johnen
Angel · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investments in Nigeria Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
  • 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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Nafiu Adenle
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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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Brandon Krieg
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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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Kola Aina
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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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Education Angel investor funding in Nigeria at a glance

Stats across 11 deals from 16 investors.

16
investors
in Nigeria Education startups
11
deals
in Nigeria Education startups
$200k
median round
in Nigeria Education startups
6%
lead investors
lead at least one round
55%
Pre-Seed
most common funding stage

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