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Top 40 Finance Angel Investors in Nigeria in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 40 angel investors that invest in Finance startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 40 Finance Angel Investors in Nigeria in January 2025

Investor	Finance Nigeria investments
Michael Seibel	3
Philippe Teixeira da Mota	3
Ham Serunjogi	2
Babs Ogundeyi	2
Idris Ayodeji Bello	2
Olumide Soyombo	2
Sandy Kory	1
Maijid Moujaled	1
Ogundiran Kayode	1
Olugbenga Agboola	1
Victoria van Lennep	1
Justin Mateen	1
Tyler Scriven	1
David Chan	1
Leonard Stiegeler	1
Tom Stafford	1
Justin Kan	1
Olawale Ajayi	1
Youcef Es-skouri	1
Olugbenga Agboola	1
Eric Nadalin	1
Gbenga Oyebode	1
Sajid Rahman	1
Karim Atiyeh	1
Zach Lipson	1
Jim Chu	1
Neil Thanedar	1
Eric Glyman	1
Sriram Krishnan	1
Bolaji Balogun	1
Vishal Agarwal	1
Dale Mathias	1
Ross Lipson	1
Folabi Esan	1
Kyane Kassiri	1
Eric Idiahi	1
Chris Adelsbach	1
Damola Adegboyega	1
Isaac Ewaleifoh	1
Edward Suh	1

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Michael Seibel is the Managing Director and Group Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as a CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dripos — Dripos was crafted by restaurant operators like yourself to do it all. We aren't joking, everything from payroll & accounting to mobile ordering & marketing.
Retell AI — RetellAI is an API for creating human-like conversational voice AI. Developers can build a voice AI similar to JARVIS in just a day — with an ~800ms response time and the ability to handle interruptions.
Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Palm — Cash Management for the Modern Treasury
Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
Keyring Network — Keyring equips financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy. The company operates at the intersection of traditional and blockchain-based finance, serving as an institutional-grade gateway to channel assets, capital, and users on-chain.

Ham Serunjogi is a co-founder and CEO at Chipper Cash.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
Sudo — Sudo is an open API platform that enables businesses to embed powerful financial features into their products. Build in minutes, launch in days.
CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.

Cofounder and CEO of Kuda

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.

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

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.

Olumide Soyombo holds a BSc in Systems Engineering from University of Lagos, Nigeria and an MSc (Distinction) in Business and Information Technology from the Aston Business School, Birmingham, England; earning membership into the Beta Gamma Sigma Society for his high scholastic achievement.Olumide co–founded Bluechip Technologies Ltd in 2008 andhas grown the organisation from an organization with two employees to an organization with over 80 consultants spread across Lagos, Accra and Lusaka, Zambia.In 2014, Olumide setup Leadpath as a seed fund investing in local tech startups. He has invested in startups like Pushcv.com, Paystack, Piggybank.ng, Fashpa, Heels.com.ng , Delivery Science, Gloo.ng, and Cosign.co.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
JADA — JADA focuses on both technical expertise and soft skill development and is designed to upskill experienced professionals in data analytics, machine learning, and generative AI.
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.

Prior to MVP, he was Vice President at Arbor Advisors, leading their highly successful entry into the digital media and interactive marketing industries. He advised clients in a number of industry-leading transactions, such as the sale of WorldClass Strategy to EducationDynamics, the sale of ReliableRemodeler.com to Quinstreet, the sale ofInvestopedia.com to Forbes Media, and the sale of Interest.com to Bankrate.Sandy is a regular speaker at industry conferences, including Ad-Tech and LeadsCon. He received his B.A. in Psychology and M.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
Mindset Health — Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy.
Enable Us — Buyer & seller enablement with one single link. Enable's digital salesroom has everything B2B buyers and sellers need to close deals quickly

Maijid Moujaled is a co-founder and president at Chipper Cash.

Investment focus

FinTech, Gaming, Mobile
Seed, Series A
Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
PayHippo — PayHippo is making it easier to finance small and medium sized businesses in Africa. There is a need for financing of $158 bn for SMEs in Nigeria alone. To start, PayHippo helps SMEs access and spend lender capital effectively. During their first full operational year in 2020, the PayHippo co--founders leveraged their domain expertise and foundingexperience to beat their 2020 goal by 50%.
Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.

Ogundiran Kayode is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services
Pre-Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.

Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
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.

Victoria van Lennep - Co-Founder @ Lendable

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Virgil — Virgil is the trusted partner of all those who want to become owners but whose personal contribution is insufficient to buy the apartment they want.
Defacto — Never fall behind with defacto's instant financing solution. We also integrate with your accounting systems & scale to your needs. Join our wait list !
Framework — Framework is the world’s first on-demand business school, radically reimagined for them. Born out of Founders Forum, a private network of the world's top tech entrepreneurs, we’ve worked with over 100+ operators—across product, growth, ops, people, data, engineering & design, from some of the world's most innovative companiesincluding Monzo, Babylon, Bulb & Depop—to pioneer a new model of lifelong learning.

Justin Mateen is the Cofounder and former CMO of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Whop — Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
Somethings — Somethings connects teens with a Certified Peer Specialist Mentor who provide a safe, trustworthy space to feel their best and combat loneliness.

Tyler is an entrepreneur and early-stage technology investor. He currently serves as a Managing Director of Techstars Atlanta. Prior to joining Techstars, Tyler was a member of the senior leadership team at Palantir Technologies in Silicon Valley, where he served as Chief of Staff and Head of Operations. During his tenure with Palantir, he wasbroadly engaged in scaling the operations of the business from 100 to nearly 2,000 employees.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Food Processing
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Sequr — Genea Security Mobile Access Control software puts the power in your hands. Instantly grant or revoke access. Use mobile phone to unlock doors with a tap.
Landed — We help education, healthcare, and government employees buy homes by providing access to funds, trusted partners and guidance.
Farmcrowdy — Farmcrowdy is an agric-tech platform that gives Nigerians the opportunity to participate in Agriculture by selecting the kind of farms they want to sponsor. They use the sponsor’s funds to secure the land, engage the farmer, plant the seeds, insure the farmers and farm produce, complete the full farming cycle, sell the harvest and then pay the farmsponsor a return on their sponsorship. While this farm process is ongoing, the farm sponsors are able to keep track of the full-cycle by getting updates in text, pictures and videos.

Mr. David Chan, CFA is an Advisor at ROBO Global Ventures. He graduated with a B.A. in Biochemistry from Harvard University in 1983 and received an M.B.A. from Columbia University in 1989.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Women's
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Wellthy — Wellthy is a family care concierge service bringing relief to families managing complex or ongoing care situations. The company's solution brings relief to families managing aging-related concerns, childcare, special needs, health conditions, and other complex or ongoing care situations. Wellthy connects families with a dedicated CareCoordinator to help tackle the logistical and administrative tasks of caring for the ones they love, including themselves.Through Wellthy’s online platform, families can keep track of appointments, save contacts, organize tasks by type, store important documents, and revisit past conversations.The company was founded in 2014 by Lindsay Jurist-Rosner and Kevin Roche and is headquartered in New York, United States.
BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
StarkWare Industries — StarkWare is using STARK proofs to bringing scalability, security and privacy to a blockchain near you

Leonard Stiegeler is the Founder of Pulse, the leading innovative media company in Africa. He is backing & investing in media-/art-/technology- & -enabled ventures/assets. Some of his interests include Business Insider Africa, Art News Africa and Digital News Africa. Prior, he was the General Manager of Swiss Ringier AfricaAG since 2016 – responsible for buiding up the group's business on the continent. Ringier is today active in 8 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and through its ROAM-holding leads brands such as Jobberman, Cheki, Private Property, BuyRentKenya, Pigiame, ZoomTanzania, and many more. Prior to his work with Ringier since 2013, Leo helped to establish Rocket Internet and other German investors in Africa. Leo is originally from Germany and has been based in different African countries since 2011.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Bamba — Bamba is a small software development house building Android applications
Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Kwik — Kwik Delivery is the fastest and most affordable delivery service for your businesses in Lagos, Abuja, and Ibadan. We deliver under 2 hours.

Tom is a Co-Founder at DST Global, an internet-focused investment firm with a global focus.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.
Fuse Energy — Fuse Energy is building the future of electricity with cheaper tariffs, better service, and greener goals. Switch to Fuse Energy today
Surfboard — Surfboard WFM features integrated forecasting, capacity planning, automated scheduling and performance analytics for modern support teams.

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Nigeria, India

Portfolio highlights

Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Qualified Health — Discover the Infrastructure for enforceable governance, agent creation, and post-deployment monitoring for Generative AI in healthcare

Olawale Ajayi

Investment focus

Apps, FinTech, Finance
Pre-Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Skye Wallet — Africa’s Simplest Cryptocurrency Wallet & Exchange App (Mobile & Web): Launched on the 12th of April 2021, transacted N500M+ ($1M)+ volume in the first 16 weeks of launch and figure keeps growing. Access to over 10 top Cryptocurrency (Coins/Tokens) and have infrastructure to integrate up to 100 more tokens in few months.

Youcef Es-skouri

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.
Journify — Activate trustworthy data for your business with Journify - the leading data activation platform for top data-driven companies. Sign up free!
SwingVision — Real-Time Automated Video Analysis for Tennis

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

tushop — Tushop is a community group buying platform where members can sell groceries to those in their social networks and communities.
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
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.

Eric Nadalin has entrepreneurship experiences in both the payments and telecoms spaces for over 20+ years. He cofounded Nexmo and worked as a CTO managing product and engineering teams. The company was acquired by Vonage in May 2016. During the dotcom era, he was based in San Francisco and cofounded iPIN, which was later on acquired by Valista andwas integrated with major mobile operators around the globe. Eric holds several patents in telecommunication, a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Computer Science from Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Cledara — Manage, control and automate your Company's cloud software so that you can scale your operational processes, comply with regulations and save money.
Northflank — Northflank is the comprehensive developer platform designed for scale. Seamlessly deploy and release any project on our cloud or in yours.
Oyster — Hire, pay, manage, and take care of your globally distributed team with confidence. Try Oyster for free today!

Gbenga Oyebode serves as an Of Counsel of Aluko and Oyebode. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and the Ekiti State University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mono — Secure and reliable open banking infrastructure for access to financial data and payments to build financial products for your customers.
Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.

Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
10 Minute School — 10 Minute School is the largest online educational platform in Bangladesh. Through our website, app, and social media, more than 10 Million+ students are accessing quality education each day to accelerate their learning.

Karim Atiyeh is the Co-Founder and CTO of Ramp, the fastest growing spend management platform and corporate card. Launched in 2020, Ramp gives Finance leaders an edge with powerful software that helps them save time and control spend before it happens. A Lebanese entrepreneur, Karim previously built and sold YCombinator-backed Paribus to CapitalOne in 2016.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Cercli — The single platform for MENA companies to hire, manage and pay your global workforce
Icon — Icon helps brands partner with creators, turn 1 video into 20 videos with AI, and A/B test messaging to find winning ads. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as founders & executives of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Pika, & Cognition (Devin).
Pika — The idea-to-video platform that sets your creativity in motion.

Zach Lipson is the co-founder and CPO at Dutchie. Prior to that, he co-founded and served as head of product at RepPro.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.

Jim Chu is the Founder & CEO at Untapped Global.

Investment focus

Solar, Water, Energy
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Uganda, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

OnePipe — OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
dloHaiti — dloHaiti is a Market Based Solution for Clean Water in Haiti. Sustainable and impactful, it provides clean drinking water to underserved areas of Haiti, areas where access to clean, safe drinking water is unreliable, expensive, or simply unavailable.
Onelamp Uganda — Distributing solar fishing lanterns and solar lights in Uganda.

Neil Thanedar is the Founder and GP of Utopic Ventures and the Founder and Chairman of Labdoor and Air to All.Previously, Neil was the Founder and President of Avomeen Analytical Services, a chemical analysis and product development laboratory.He has also served as Senior Advisor to his father Shri Thanedar in his campaigns for Governor, StateRepresentative, and US Congress in Michigan.Neil graduated from the University of Michigan in 2010 with degrees in Molecular Biology and Business Administration.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services, Apps
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Beek — Beek is building the top audio platform in Latin America. 10/10 people you see on the streets with headphones, will be listening on Beek to the best audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and any audio content that they like. There will be a Netflix for Spoken word audio for the 480M+ native Spanish Speakers, and Beek is the team building it.
Paystack — Over 60,000 businesses of all sizes use Paystack to collect payments with a modern, secure payment gateway.
MatterFab — MatterFab offers a production 3D metal printer solution that removes the limitations of industrial fabrication. Final part production is the fastest growing segment of 3D printing built on equipment designed for prototyping that is not designed to scale. MatterFab provides a scalable production additive manufacturing solution with printers,material supply, traceable powder cartridges, training, education, maintenance services, and application engineering support to accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing in our client's organizations. Manufacturing has the power to shape the world and MatterFab has the power to reshape manufacturing.

Eric Glyman is co-founder and CEO of Ramp, the ultimate platform for modern finance teams. Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables tens of billions of dollars in purchases each year. 15,000+ businesses on Ramp have collectively saved more than $600 million and over 8.5 million hours ofemployee time by controlling spend and automating manual tasks. Prior to Ramp, Eric co-founded Paribus, a price-tracking app to help consumers save money on their everyday online purchases. Paribus was acquired by Capital One in 2016. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Eric now lives in New York City.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Icon — Icon helps brands partner with creators, turn 1 video into 20 videos with AI, and A/B test messaging to find winning ads. We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, as well as founders & executives of OpenAI, Ramp, Flexport, Pika, & Cognition (Devin).
Archive — Archive App automatically detects & saves Instagram posts your brand gets tagged in. Yes, Instagram Stories as well, not just feed posts.
Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.

Sriram Krishnan currently works as a General Partner for Andreessen Horowitz. He previously worked at Twitter as a Product. Sriram Krishnan attended SRM Engineering College, Anna University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Demox Labs — Demox Labs develops a decentralized, trustless oracle protocol for the connection of smart contracts to any off-chain data source. The company's data bridge from web2 to web3 unlocks all online data for smart contract development. Demox Labs was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.
Lasso Labs — Lasso Labs is a data integration platform that provides real-time information flows that helps to stay current with new opportunities, and approachable analytics that helps in understanding of communities, by ingesting real-time data from on-chain and off-chain sources.
Aviator — Avoid broken builds, long code-reviews, cumbersome merge processes and flaky tests. Put your mundane, frustrating workflows on autopilot.

Bolaji Balogun CEO at Chapel Hill Denham

Investment focus

Apps, FinTech, Finance
Seed
Kenya, Nigeria

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.
PayHippo — PayHippo is making it easier to finance small and medium sized businesses in Africa. There is a need for financing of $158 bn for SMEs in Nigeria alone. To start, PayHippo helps SMEs access and spend lender capital effectively. During their first full operational year in 2020, the PayHippo co--founders leveraged their domain expertise and foundingexperience to beat their 2020 goal by 50%.

Vishal Agarwal serves as a Founder & CEO at ItsaCheckmate.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

OnePipe — OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
Momint — Momint is the Web3 investment platform of the future. The safest and easiest to use NFT marketplace in the world. Discover the real-world potential of NFTs.

Dale Mathias

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Internet
Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Kosa — Kosa enables organizations across healthcare, hiring and HR, credit and risk, and insurance to build or deploy more inclusive technologies.
Octamile — Octamile is Africa's best Embedded Insurance & Claims Automation solution for Insurers & B2C businesses. Get a quote today...
Paystack — Over 60,000 businesses of all sizes use Paystack to collect payments with a modern, secure payment gateway.

Ross Lipson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dutchie, a leading cannabis technology platform that powers dispensary operations, provides consumers with safe and easy access to products, and supports the societal change that cannabis is bringing to the world. Founded in 2017, Dutchie works with over 5000 dispensaries across North America, facilitatingover $14b in annual sales. Prior to founding Dutchie, Ross was the Co-Founder and CEO of GrubCanada, Canada’s first online food ordering service. GrubCanada was acquired by Just Eat in 2012.

Investment focus

Logistics, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

Kyte — Kyte delivers rental cars straight to your door. We deliver and pick up the vehicle. No lines, no paperwork, freedom to explore. Fully flexible. Book today!
Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
Filo — Filo, Edtech, transactional learning model by online tutors available for students in less than 60 seconds. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.filo.student&hl=en&gl=US

Folabi Esan has been a partner at Adlevo Capital since it was founded in 2007.Prior to joining Adlevo Capital, Folabi was the founder and Managing Consultant of Catalyst TDC, a Nigeria-based consulting firm that advises clients on technology adoption issues within their companies. Prior to founding Catalyst TDC, Folabi was the Managing Directorof SAP Nigeria, the Nigerian subsidiary of the leading enterprise software company, for five years. He successfully drove the company to profitability within three years and was instrumental in building the company up to its current position as the leading provider of enterprise software to large corporations in the region.Before he joined SAP, Folabi managed Heureka Consulting, a marketing consulting firm that provided consulting services to small and mid-sized IT Companies in Nigeria. He started Heureka Consulting after founding and running Wood Products Limited, a Nigeria-based manufacturer of wood products. Folabi’s previous experience also includes positions with Bain & Company in the US and Andersen Consulting in Nigeria.Folabi received a B. Eng. in Mechanical Engineering (First Class Division) from Ahmadu Bello University, an M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford University, and an M.Sc. in Innovation Management and Technology Policy from University of London.

Investment focus

FinTech, Mobile Payments, AgTech
Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Paga — Paga is a mobile payment company. We are building an ecosystem to enable people to digitally send and receive money, and creating simple financial access for everyone. Our mission is to make it simple for one billion people to access and use money. Our first market is Nigeria where Paga is the leading mobile payment company.
OnePipe — OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
COOKO — “Cooko” means “Source” or “Wellspring” in the proto-Bantu language of West Africa. This reflects the spirit of the company. We aim to go to the source, to work from the ground up to improve the livelihood of Cacao farmers.Our key innovation changes the way that cacao is sourced. Not only does it provide a better quality bean, we also providefirst-mile traceability. This has been identified as the key factor in transforming the industry into a more sustainable and equitable economic force.The farmer benefits: In one day they can make the money that would have required 10 days labour.The industry benefits: International traders are increasingly frustrated with low-grade cacao, contaminated with everything from stones to unfermented beans. By changing the first step in the process we lock the beans into a controlled refinement process.The consumer benefits: When you see the source-fermented™ label, you will know that your cacao (or chocolate) has been equitably sourced.

Emerging market investor. Partner @ RaliCap.

Investment focus

Retail, Finance, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Pakistan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kippa — ## Build Setup
Simulon — Studio-quality VFX on a mobile. Sign up to the Simulon beta.
Markaz Technologies — Markaz provides an online reselling platform to help anyone in Pakistan source wholesale products from across the country and sell with a profit through their own social media stores on WhatsApp and Facebook without investing any money, from the comfort of their home.Markaz is on a mission to supercharge the rails of ecommerce and make itaccessible to masses in Pakistan by enabling and empowering micro-entrepreneurs.

Eric Idiahi, co-founder and partner at Verod Capital Management.

Investment focus

Dental, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Mono — Secure and reliable open banking infrastructure for access to financial data and payments to build financial products for your customers.
Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
Snazzy — Snazzy is a teledentistry platform for teeth straightening. It offers affordable and accessible clear aligner treatment. Snazzy was founded in 2020 by Ayush Pateria and Keshav Chouksey and was headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana.

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.

Damola Adegboyega is an Assembly Investors.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services
Pre-Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.
Intron Health — Intron is the future of clinical documentation with real-time clinical speech-to-text for 200+ African accents, easing the transition to digitized care.

Isaac Ewaleifoh is an Angel Investor | SDGs Ambassador.

Investment focus

Finance, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Pre-Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.

Edward Suh

Investment focus

Financial Services, Mobile Apps, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Kippa — ## Build Setup
Pushas — Buy & Sell Authentic, Brand-New Sneakers From Australia's Favourite Sneaker Store. Widest selection of hype, exclusive sneakers: Air Jordans, Yeezys, Nike, Adidas, Off-Whites & more. AfterPay, Klarna, ZipPay & Laybuy available. 'Authenticity' guarantee on every sneaker purchase or your money back.
Clever Real Estate — We match you with top agents nationwide and help you save. Sellers get full service for just a 1.5% listing fee. Buyers can get cash back after closing.

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