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Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Nigeria (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and 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
Launch Africa
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $100k–$4.4M
Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon Pre-Seed, Grant Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
Hesham Zreik
Angel
4 United States, Nigeria, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $12k–$5M
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 Seed, Pre-Seed EdTech, Retail, Software $120k–$1M
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 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Future Africa
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$40M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $1.9M–$15M
Ardent Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Software $100k–$15M
Growth Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed EdTech, Software, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$10M
Timon Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech $100k–$30M
Injini
VC Fund
2 South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya Grant, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Education, EdTech, E-Learning $55k–$500k
54 Collective
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$23M
Paul Kokoricha
Angel
1 Nigeria, Mauritius Private Equity, Seed Internet, Financial Services, B2B $20M–$200M
Fondation Botnar
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Logistics, EdTech $327k–$10M
Prosper Otemuyiwa
Angel
1 Nigeria, Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Software, CRM $200k–$1M
Shola Akinlade
Angel
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Education, Insurance $192k–$4M
Beta.Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, B2B $100k–$3M
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $250k–$25M
Babs Ogundeyi
Angel
1 Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $780k–$6M
Owl Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Germany Series A, Series B, Seed Education, EdTech, E-Learning $2.5M–$50M
Founder Collective
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce $1.1M–$20M
Rise Capital
VC Fund
1 Brazil, Mexico, Egypt Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Apps, Internet $2.5M–$60M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $100k–$10M
LocalGlobe
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$30M
Bashar Hamood
Angel
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $7k–$5M
ODBA
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care $43k–$2M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $25k–$8M
FMO
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, The Netherlands Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series B Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy $4.5M–$420M
Zedcrest Capital Limited
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Software, Financial Services $300k–$3.7M
Octerra Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $600k–$13M
Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, B2B $50k–$10M
Reflect Ventures
VC Fund
1 Pakistan, United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Logistics, Information Technology, E-Commerce $120k–$37M
Untapped Global
VC Fund
1 Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services $1.2M–$3M
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
L5lab
VC Fund
1
Frontier Learning Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, EdTech, FinTech
Zrosk Investment Management
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $200k–$33M
Musty Mustapha
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Education, InsurTech, Insurance $3.5M–$4M
UNITED
VC Fund
1 Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia Seed, Series A Apps, Software, Information Technology $645k–$43M
Raffael Johnen
Angel
1 Nigeria, Germany, Australia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Payments, Financial Services $1.6M–$20M
FM Capital Group
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C Software, Big Data, EdTech
Meta
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Canada Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $5k–$7.2M
Gbite Oduneye
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care $43k–$10M
Ed Robinson
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Insurance, InsurTech $3.5M–$28M
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 5 investments in Nigeria Education startups, 7 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: 217
  • 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 — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Zazu — Zazu is a neobank for African SMEs, offering seamless banking tools, cash flow automation, and real-time insights. Zazu simplifies finance management in one all-in-one solution.
  • 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 — Udu Technologies is an AI infrastructure company that offers GPU systems, AI platform integration, and technical support services.
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 4 investments in Nigeria Education 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: 160
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
  • MarketForce — MarketForce is a US, Kenya and Nigeria-based technology company that is building the SuperApp for Africa's 100 million merchants. MarketForce provides an all-inclusive B2B Commerce and Fintech platform (dubbed “RejaReja” – Swahili for ‘retail’) that empowers merchants in Africa to source, order and pay for inventory digitally and conveniently,access financing, collect digital payments and make extra money by reselling digital financial services such as airtime, electricity tokens and bill payments. Launched in 2018, MarketForce is a fast-growing YC backed company running an asset-light business model and is currently operational in 5 markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with over 200,000 merchants and 50 consumer brands trading on the platform.
  • ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Nigeria Education 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 — A wellness + farm to skin brand that creates pampering experiences and luxurious natural personal grooming products. Sharing Africa!
  • Mukuru Clean Stoves — Earthshot Prize Winner 2022. We use recycled metal to manufacture improved, efficient and affordable cookstoves.
  • 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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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 4 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, Nigeria, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 887
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $12k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Book Your Own — Book Your Own is building an integrated travel ecosystem designed to unify India’s fragmented travel market.
  • UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
  • Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Nigeria Education 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

Portfolio highlights

  • Accounteer — Accounteer is a cloud accounting platform for small businesses. Business owner can create invoices, track expenses and follow up on their finances with ease. Accounteer integrates with external services like banks, e-invoicing platforms and e-commerce. Future proof your business today by subscribing for a free Accounteer trial account.
  • Spring in Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.
  • ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Nigeria Education 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, Retail, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$1M
  • 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.
  • Youverify — Youverify helps businesses and individuals confirm identity and physical addresses. Using AI, Youverify confirms a user’s identity document and compares it with their facial biometrics. This information can be cross-checked against more than 300 databases locally and globally.Youverify in partnership with over 20,000 field verification officersverifies physical addresses all over Sub-Sahara Africa in less than 48 hours.Youverify fills the gap in Africa's digital industry by providing one API for identity and physical address verification.
  • 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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Enza Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 3 investments in Nigeria Education startups, 6 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: 53
  • 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 — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Yakeey — Yakeey is an end-to-end transactional marketplace that radically simplifies the experience of buying, selling and renting real estate.We leverage on data and technology to connect all real estate market players through a state of the art platform, create a chain of trust and powerful network effects and accelerate transactions.Yakeey is builton a community of real estate advisors, YakeeyPRO, to deliver a continuous professional and tailored service at every step of the transaction.
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
  • Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in Nigeria Education 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: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2215
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
  • Homethings — Single-use plastic is bonkers. Homethings makes cleaning products that make sense. No more shipping water in plastic bottles. We send non toxic cleaning tabs so that you can refill over and over again using your tap.
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Education 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: 91
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
  • Juicyway — The new shape of money? Fluid. Access global currencies with Juicyway. Buy, sell, hold, and pay globally using our fast APIs, web, or mobile apps. Download now.
  • 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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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Nigeria Education 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: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Autochek — Welcome To Autochek Group's Homepage. Read About The Company's Vision And Mission. Select A Country And Apply For Car Loans
  • 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.
  • Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
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Ardent Capital
VC Fund · Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand · 2 investments in Nigeria Education 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: 42
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $100k–$350k; Series A $100k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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: Access to Loans, Investments, Utility Payments, Credit Access, Insurance, and More! Unlock Opportunities to Earn, Invest, and Grow. Secure Personal or Business Loans Toda
  • 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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Growth Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria Education 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, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • 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.
  • 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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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Education 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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 170
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2021

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 — Zero-Trust and ML-based Endpoint Detection and Response Platform #EDR #FDR #EndpointSecurity
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Timon Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria Education 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: 28
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$4M; Series A $14M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% 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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Injini
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Nigeria Education 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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$500k; Grant $55k–$132k
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Ubuntu Education — Ubuntu Education is an EdTech company focusing on leveling education by championing and empowering teachers.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Nigeria Education 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: 111
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LipaLater — LipaLater is a lending marketplace that provides postpaid payments at e-commerce stores. They are making technology affordable for you. Get the electronic of your choice today and pay for it in comfortable monthly installments.
  • 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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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Nigeria Education 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: 84
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series A $1.1M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Onboard — Onboard helps hardware companies transform their text manuals to 3D, intelligent manuals with instant customer support capabilities.
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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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Fondation Botnar
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Education startups

Fondation Botnar is a charitable foundation established with the core purpose to support children’s basic needs throughout the world. It was founded in Basel in 2003 to continue the philanthropic work of the Botnar family. Their focus is health, nutrition and education.They have supported many compelling projects over the years and are now in aprocess to establish a new strategy. They are currently developing a fresh investment and organisational framework to sustainably manage the capital base.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Logistics, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $327k–$1.1M; Series A $3.8M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Brisil — Climate tech startup transforming rice husk ash to green silica for industrial purposes using zero waste chemical process.
  • Ekko — Ekko provides earned wage access, financial literacy, and HR digital transformation tools for enterprises across Southeast Asia.
  • Dash Electric — Democratizes access to driver as a fleet solutions. Provides a crucial delivery infrastructure for business by leveraging the power of EV.
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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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Shola Akinlade
Angel · Sunnyvale, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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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Beta.Ventures
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Education startups

Beta.Ventures supports Africa's leading tech entrepreneurs.We are a New York and Lagos based venture capital firm helping ambitious entrepreneurs build innovative products and services, with a focus on rapid revenue and profit growth. We are unique in our ability to help companies grow organically in Africa, while also scaling globally.Wework closely with talented founders and teams from product idea to product launch through to the next stage of company development with a goal to maximize success and minimize risk.Our partners, affiliates and mentors lead top technology companies locally and internationally and we encourage you to partner with us to take advantage of our experience building great products/services, negotiating partnerships and deals, leading teams, and raising money. With us, you will avoid mistakes we, and others, have made.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rayda — Infrastructure to acquire, manage, insure and dispose fixed assets for businesses globally.
  • Voyance — Voyance is a big data company helping businesses predict the future using machine learning combined with their data. Our platform can be used to answer questions like what does my revenue look like in the next two months, is this transaction fraudulent, will this customer churn and much more. We are currently piloting with organisations like banks,ecommerce and fintechs companies across Africa and United Arab Emirates.
  • Stacs — Stacs allows you to quickly pay for what you need without breaking the bank by dividing your largest bills into tiny bits.
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Education startups

Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
  • Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
  • 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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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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Owl Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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 helpentrepreneurs 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: 153
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$10M; Series A $5.2M–$29M; Series B $13M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% 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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Founder Collective
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 374
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7M; Series A $1.4M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $85M in 2020

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.
  • Ficus — Ficus helps life insurers modernize retained asset accounts with digital beneficiary accounts that improve account clarity, access to funds, and beneficiary experience.
  • Ranger — Stop worrying about testing; automate it with Ranger.
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Rise Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

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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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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: 203
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.2M; 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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LocalGlobe
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Nigeria Education startups

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: 367
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$13M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.3M; Series A $4.2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • nPlan — AI that forecasts project outcomes, creates scenarios of the future and helps mitigate risk across single projects and portfolios. Trained on over 750,000 past programmes.
  • Stream — Stream is a financial services firm that allows employees to stream their earned wages into their accounts through an instant app. The app allows them to have complete control over when they get paid. It also effectively ends the need for employee advances, loans, and employee stress suffered from short-term, unplanned financial obligations. Thecompany aims to play a key role in reducing the poverty premium and preventing employees from entering cycles of debt caused by overdraft fees, high-interest credit, or payday loans.
  • Dataform — Develop and operationalize scalable data transformations pipelines in BigQuery using SQL.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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: 476
  • 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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ODBA
VC Fund · Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius · 1 investments in Nigeria Education startups

We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$2M; Pre-Seed $43k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hopea Pay — Hopea Pay provides payment plans for healthcare services that comply with Shariah financial standards. The platform allows patients to split bills into monthly installments from three to twenty-four months. Payments are sent directly to healthcare providers while patients manage their schedules digitally through a mobile app. The system meetsglobal standards for security and privacy, including HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOC2. It works with healthcare providers to make services accessible through managed payment solutions.
  • TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
  • Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids brings African stories to life! Award-winning books, music & media that make early learning joyful, empowering & proudly cultural.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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 toachieve 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: 44
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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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FMO
VC Fund · The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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, Post-IPO Debt, Series B
  • Geography: India, Kenya, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 194
  • Round size: Series B $4.5M–$46M; Post-IPO Debt $25M–$420M; Debt Financing $5M–$195M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SolarSaver — We provide customised rooftop solar PV solutions to corporate, industrial customers in Namibia & SA through its proprietary zero-capital financing model.
  • 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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Zedcrest Capital Limited
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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: 13
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% 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.
  • 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 — Empowering developers worldwide with seamless and secure application deployment and management. Join the revolution. #Salus_Cloud
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Octerra Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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, Information Technology, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$4M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% 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.
  • EMTECH — Cari pragmatic slot gacor? Cek info RTP slot Pragmatic Play terupdate di AkongCuan. Mulai modal slot depo 5K sekarang, mainkan, dan raih cuan maksimal!
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Reflect Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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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Untapped Global
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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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Faster Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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 Education 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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L5lab
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Education startups

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Frontier Learning Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DCI.WIKI — DCI.WIKI is a global registry for digital provenance. It provides DCI identifiers that verify content authenticity, ownership, and origin, empowering creators, researchers, institutions, government and media platforms to build a transparent digital ecosystem.
  • Risely AI — Risely AI provides an AI-powered advising platform that helps higher education institutions identify at-risk students, personalize outreach, and streamline student success workflows. The AI Advisor collects and organizes student data from all campus systems. It identifies students who need attention and suggests actions. The system drafts emailsand messages for student outreach. The platform follows security and compliance standards for student records. It integrates with campus systems quickly, allowing teams to start using it in days.
  • 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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Zrosk Investment Management
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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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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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UNITED
VC Fund · Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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
  • Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $645k–$4.4M; Series A $868k–$43M
  • 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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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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FM Capital Group
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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: 4
  • 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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Meta
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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–$2.3M; 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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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: 32
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$10M; Pre-Seed $43k–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EATO — From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.
  • 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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Ed Robinson
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Education 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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Education Investor funding in Nigeria at a glance

Stats across 123 deals from 86 investors.

86
investors
in Nigeria Education startups
123
deals
in Nigeria Education startups
$127k
median round
in Nigeria Education startups
55%
lead investors
lead at least one round
50%
Grant
most common funding stage
85/15
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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