# Top 40 Finance Angel Investors in Nigeria in June 2026

## Philippe Teixeira da Mota
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

## Michael Seibel
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech

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.

## Hesham Zreik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Idris Ayodeji Bello
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## Ham Serunjogi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Mobile Apps

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

## Olumide Soyombo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

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.

## Babs Ogundeyi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Cofounder and CEO of Kuda

## Leonard Stiegeler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B

Leonard Stiegeler is an entrepreneur & investor in projects unlocking potential. Educated in Europe, he founded companies across EMEA and is now investing globally. He is passionate to develop opportunities with & for others. The companies he co-founded include Jumia, now a leading eCommerce company in Africa and Pulse, now a leading mediacompany in Africa. His investments include Paystack, Flutterwave, Scalable Capital, Conversion and many more. Dedicated to creating trusted connections to enable potential, he founded two networks - Africa Collective, focused on elevating the continent's role globally, and Counder, focused on enabling visionary leaders embrace emerging trends & regions collectively.

## Olugbenga Agboola
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

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.

## Isaac Ewaleifoh
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, InsurTech

Isaac Ewaleifoh is an Angel Investor | SDGs Ambassador.

## Zach Lipson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services

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

## Vishal Agarwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance

Vishal Agarwal serves as a Founder & CEO at ItsaCheckmate.


## Victoria van Lennep
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Victoria van Lennep - Co-Founder @ Lendable

## Sajid Rahman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking

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

## Eric Glyman
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## Sandy Kory
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Analytics, FinTech

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.

## Eric Nadalin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Financial Services

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.

## Karim Atiyeh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

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.

## Neil Thanedar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Flint, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services, Apps

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.

## Eric Idiahi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Dental, FinTech, Finance

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

## Kyane Kassiri
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Retail, Finance, Software

Emerging market investor. Partner @ RaliCap.

## Olumide Ogunsanwo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services

Olumide Ogunsanwo is a Investor (Adamantium fund -> African startups), Podcaster (Afrobility) & Advisor (Google Bizops) | Oxford, MIT & McKinsey alum.

## Ross Lipson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bend, Oregon, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Logistics, E-Commerce, Internet

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.

## Edward Suh
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Mobile Apps, FinTech, Financial Services

Edward Suh

## Youcef Es-skouri
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Youcef Es-skouri

## Gbenga Oyebode
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

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

## Sriram Krishnan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Sriram Krishnan is based out of Washington, District of Columbia and is the Senior Policy Advisor of The White House. Sriram previously worked at Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner. Sriram attended the SRM Engineering College.

## Raffael Johnen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Software

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".

## Hakeem Belo-Osagie
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services

‘Keem holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, a law degree from Cambridge University and an M.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University. He is a member of the Nigerian Bar. He started his career as a petroleum economist and a lawyer. For over three decades, he has been a key player in the Nigerian economy through hisparticipation in several businesses in the private sector particularly in the energy, finance and telecommunications sectors.‘Keem started his career in the service of the Federal Government of Nigeria working in various capacities in the energy sector ranging from Special Assistant to the Presidential Adviser on petroleum and energy, to Secretary of the Oil Policy Review and LNG Committees. He also served as Special Assistant to the Minister of Petroleum and Energy. He subsequently worked in the Petrochemicals Division of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. He resigned his appointment in 1986 to set up CTIC, which became a leading energy consulting firm.

## Tyler Scriven
- Type: Angel
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

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.

## David Chan
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Women's

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.

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Maijid Moujaled
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Gaming, Mobile

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

## Justin Mateen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

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.

## Tom Stafford
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

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

## Dale Mathias
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Internet

Dale Mathias

## Ogundiran Kayode
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services

Ogundiran Kayode is an individual investor.

## Olawale Ajayi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Finance

Olawale Ajayi

## Justin Kan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, SaaS

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

## Jim Chu
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Solar, Water, Energy

Jim Chu is the Founder & CEO at Untapped Global.

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