Top 10 Education Angel Investors in Nigeria in May 2025
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Education startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Education Angel Investors in Nigeria in May 2025
Investor | Education Nigeria investments |
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Ed Robinson | 1 |
Musty Mustapha | 1 |
Brandon Krieg | 1 |
Gbite Oduneye | 1 |
Raffael Johnen | 1 |
Shola Akinlade | 1 |
Bashar Hamood | 1 |
Idris Ayodeji Bello | 1 |
Paul Kokoricha | 1 |
Babs Ogundeyi | 1 |
Ed Robison is a Co-Founder of Stash. He attended the University of Sydney from 2002 to 2004.
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Investment focus
- InsurTech, Insurance, Banking
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Nigeria, United States
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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Investment focus
- Education, InsurTech, Insurance
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
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
- InsurTech, Insurance, Banking
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Nigeria, United States
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.
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
- Financial Services, FinTech, Financial Exchanges
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United Kingdom, Rwanda
Portfolio highlights
- Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
- Cashmere App — Helping millennials and Gen Z's save up for their favourite luxury goods and experiences
- Kuda — Kuda is a full service digital only bank with a mission to bank every African on the planet. Kuda was founded in 2019 by Babs Ogundeyi and Musty Mustapha and is Headquartered in London
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
- FinTech, Payments, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Germany, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
- Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
- Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Education, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda
Portfolio highlights
- Chowdeck — Chowdeck is a food delivery service and marketplace to buy meals from a wide range of restaurants.
- Earnipay — Earnipay enables employers to offer employees access to their earned salaries instantly at any time without making changes to their existing payment process.
- 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.
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
- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
- TravelTales — TravelTales is a platform that connects travelers with local guides who offer personalized.
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The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Mobile Apps
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
- SimpliFi — SimpliFi is on a mission to democratize payments by building the leading Cards as a Service (CaaS) platform for MENA and Pakistan.
- 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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Investment focus
- Internet, B2B, Software
- Private Equity, Seed
- Mauritius, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- WIOCC — WIOCC is Africa's leading provider of comprehensive, integrated core digital infrastructure solutions and managed network services in Africa...
- Decagon — Build faster with vetted remote software engineering talent
- Accelerex Holdings — Accelerex Holdings specializes in the fields of financial services and investments.
Cofounder and CEO of Kuda
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- 24SEVEN — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.
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