Top 15 Education Angel Investors in Nigeria (October 2026)

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

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 1171
Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

Groccery store — Groccery store is a local Groccery store based in Hlotse, Leribe, Lesotho, designed to address a key challenge in the community
Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
Mercy Community School — Mercy Community School is a community-driven education initiative based in Linda Compound, Lusaka, Zambia.

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Paul Kokoricha

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

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Payments, 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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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).

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

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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Founder / CEO @ Acodeclass

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 — A code class, the A stands for advanced, which means you just cant help but move forward when you use any of our services.

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Non Executive Director @ Comic Republic

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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President & Chief Scientist @ Abbadh Labs

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 builds autonomous research and decision intelligence tools to transform Africa fragmented data and help decision making. Parent @sababatHQ

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Monsuru Ajenifuja

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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Cofounder and CEO of Kuda

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

Investment focus

Industry: 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 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.

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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The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 39
Round size: Seed $450k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $425k–$1.1M
Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

ScholarX — ScholarX enables you to study a variety of skills online, receive money for your education, upskill your employees, and expand your business. The company provides low-income Africans with digital and affordable education.
Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
Bata Shoe Organization — Discover a diverse selection of stylish footwear and accessories for the entire family at Bata's online store. From athletic sneakers to elegant designs, find the latest trends and comfortable options in one place. Shop now to experience unmatched style and comfort with our extensive collection.

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

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 631
Round size: Seed $11k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $6k–$413k; Series A $33k–$5M
Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% 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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