Top 50 Financial Services Angel Investors in Nigeria
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Financial services startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Financial services companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Financial Services Angel Investors in Nigeria
Investor | Financial Services Nigeria investments |
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Olugbenga Agboola | 6 |
Olugbenga Agboola | 6 |
Babs Ogundeyi | 5 |
Olumide Soyombo | 4 |
Michael Seibel | 4 |
Idris Ayodeji Bello | 3 |
Chris Adelsbach | 3 |
Allen and Ollys International Limited - | 3 |
Youcef Es-skouri | 3 |
Tayo Oviosu | 3 |
Brandon Krieg | 2 |
Ed Robinson | 2 |
Alan Rutledge | 2 |
Karim Atiyeh | 2 |
Sahil Lavingia | 2 |
Raffael Johnen | 2 |
Cristina Santin | 2 |
Bunmi Akinyemiju | 2 |
Abdul Hassan | 2 |
Ham Serunjogi | 2 |
Dale Mathias | 2 |
Opeyemi Awoyemi | 2 |
Oliver Jung | 2 |
Michael Pennington | 1 |
Desigan Chinniah | 1 |
Vijay Shankar | 1 |
Damola Adegboyega | 1 |
Vishal Agarwal | 1 |
Karthik Ramakrishnan | 1 |
Michael Vaughan | 1 |
Cameron Hejazi | 1 |
Kola Aina | 1 |
Shola Akinlade | 1 |
Musty Mustapha | 1 |
Rene Reinsberg | 1 |
Adii Pienaar | 1 |
Ali Rampurwala | 1 |
Wemimo Abbey | 1 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 1 |
Selma Ribica | 1 |
Tomiwa Olaosebikan | 1 |
Ogundiran Kayode | 1 |
Oluchi Enebeli | 1 |
Lish Lee Jung | 1 |
Emmanuel Okeleji | 1 |
Will Neale | 1 |
Kyane Kassiri | 1 |
Ronald Chagoury Jr. | 1 |
Peter Kisadha | 1 |
Jim Chu | 1 |
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.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- 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.
Cofounder and CEO of Kuda
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- 24seven.pk — 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.
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.
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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.
- 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.
- The Gradient Boost — The Gradient Boost is an online mentor guided data science school. The Gradient Boost focus on delivering an online data science education from both a theoretical and practical perspective.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Awesomic — Get matched with the best-fit designer on a fixed budget with no stress. Place a design task and see the first results on the next business day. Start today!
- Artifact — Artifact helps capture important memories with ease by creating personal podcasts with the people of customers choice.
- 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.
The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- 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.
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
- 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.
Allen and Ollys International Limited -
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Youcef Es-skouri
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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
Tayo is the Founder & Group CEO of Paga (www.paga.com), Nigeria’s leading mobile money service. Prior to Paga, Tayo was Vice-President at Travant Capital Partners, a private equity fund in West Africa. Prior to joining Travant, Tayo was a Manager, Corporate Development, at Cisco Systems in San Jose California. Tayo’s work at Paga has beenrecognized globally - in 2014 CNBC selected Tayo as the Entrepreneur of the Year West Africa, and in 2015 the African Leadership Network selected Paga as the outstanding growing company of the year in Africa. Tayo is also the co-founder of Kairos Angels, an angel investment club.Tayo earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and also has a Masters in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- AjoMoney — AjoMoney is making access to finance easy and flexible for the financially underserved individuals and SMEs willing to cover urgent needs, by digitizing the community financing rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA) model.With the AjoMoney technology-driven platform, individuals can save and access interest-free to low-interest credits,businesses can sell credit securely to customers who are saving with them under a cooperative model.
- Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
- Venco Platforms — Venco automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.
Brandon Krieg is the Co-Founder of Collective Returns, Inc. and has been its Chief Executive Officer since July 11, 2016. Brandon Krieg served as the President of Collective Returns, Inc. until July 11, 2016 and serves as its Executive Director.
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Investment focus
- InsurTech, Insurance, Banking
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
- Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
- Jerry — Jerry is an AI, ML, and bot-powered car ownership app that saves customers time and money on car expenses. With its first product, Jerry redesigned and disrupted the century-old car insurance process, turning stacks of pages and hours of calls into a handful of clicks. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
Ed Robison is a Co-Founder of Stash. He attended the University of Sydney from 2002 to 2004.
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Investment focus
- InsurTech, Insurance, Banking
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
- Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
- Jerry — Jerry is an AI, ML, and bot-powered car ownership app that saves customers time and money on car expenses. With its first product, Jerry redesigned and disrupted the century-old car insurance process, turning stacks of pages and hours of calls into a handful of clicks. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
Alan Rutledge
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
- FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
- SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
- 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.
Sahil is the founder and CEO of Gumroad.Gumroad exists to help every creative earn a living selling the stuff they make directly to their audience.Previously, he was early at Pinterest — a service that lets users collect, organize, and share the things they are into — and worked on turntable's mobile apps.He designs and buildsproducts for fun and profit.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Puter — Puter is a privacy-first personal cloud that houses all your files, apps, and games in one private and secure place, accessible from anywhere at any time.
- ValueBase — This page discusses the history of ValueBase, what brought us together and why we decided that accurate appraisal was important. It also explains why we focus on mass appraisal and statistical techniques like regression.
- Capsule — Capsule is a startup that makes tools for editing short-form videos.
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
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Germany, France
Cristina Santin
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Bunmi is a graduate of Computer Science from the Michigan State University, USA. An execution focused executive with over 16 years entrepreneurial experience in high-tech sales, solutions development and management, Bunmi has developed over 20 proprietary technologies in Aviation, Government, Education, Oil & Gas and Banking sector globally.Bunmi has built more than five companies till date – each a potential billion dollar company and has substantial experience/relationships in the areas of Software development, Technology Consulting, Revenue Collection Strategies, Software Project Management, Business Startups, Internet Technology & Business Development. Bunmi is the Founder, MD/CEO of Venture Garden Nigeria.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- GetEquity — GetEquity is a NASDAQ for venture capital. We provide an exchange and liquidity for private companies, and an infrastructure for different cadres of venture capital around investing, founder liquidity, and shareholder management
- SureGroup — Commerce in Africa is deeply facilitated by cash, but cash-based transactions are expensive, unsafe, and difficult to track. Suregifts identified an opportunity to take advantage of the growth and adoption of the internet and all things digital in Africa by creating a simple, yet safe alternative currency to be utilised for specific purposes;Vouchers.At the core of what SureGifts does, is selling and maintaining an inventory of vouchers, which can be exchanged between two or more parties, and spent at a closed but extensive network of merchants across Africa for a near-unlimited assortment of goods and services.
- Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
Abdul Hassan
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
- Klump — Use Klump to buy today, and pay in 4 equal instalments over 3 months! Businesses accept payments and increase conversion rate and revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
- Topship — Topship is the easiest for African businesses to import/export parcels, cargo and freight to their customers, distributors and suppliers across the World. We use technology to drive transparency and delight, making it easy for African businesses to connect with customers, suppliers and distributors across the World.
Ham Serunjogi is a co-founder and CEO at Chipper Cash.
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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.
Dale Mathias
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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.
Opeyemi Awoyemi is the Founder and Managing Partner of Fast Forward Venture Studio and Fund. He previously worked at Moneymie as a Co-Founder. Opeyemi Awoyemi attended The Wharton School.
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Investment focus
- Payments, Software, InsurTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Klump — Use Klump to buy today, and pay in 4 equal instalments over 3 months! Businesses accept payments and increase conversion rate and revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
- 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.
- Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
Oliver is a global investor and entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv. Oliver is investing in US and China based companies and helps them to go international. Previous projects include airbnb, houzz and hoteltonight.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, India
Portfolio highlights
- Peakflo — Streamline your finance process with Peakflo's AP & AR automation software. Automate bill payments & invoice collections for better cashflow. Get a demo now!
- Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
- Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
One of the UK's leading tech angel investors. Active seed and pre-seed stage angel investor in UK based disruptive tech. Prefers businesses venturing into pastures new and keen investing at the pre product stage whether BtoC or B2B.
Twice exited UK based tech entrepreneur with experience operating tech businesses in 20 countries in multiplelanguages. Co-founded Gumtree with Simon Crookall which was acquired by Ebay and Slando acquired by Naspers.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Hubflo — Hubflo is building an all-in-one work OS to help small businesses manage their business. Instead of having 10 complicated and expensive pieces of software, Hubflo offers SMB everything they need to run their business (CRM, projects, invoicing, expenses...) in a single comprehensive, simple and affordable platform.
- FUEL — Where everlasting fanbases are built
- Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
Tech Advisor | Startup Mentor | Angel Investor | Board MemberDesigan Chinniah, aka Dees, provides seasoned startup, dot-com hardened, functional, strategic, creative and zero-bullshit executive advice. Dees possesses a unique set of Swiss-Army-Knife like talents and experiences - at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Business Development,Marketing, Fundraising and Developer Relations.A self-confessed geek — this sneakerhead lives in London with his wife, Sanne and their two kids, Summer Skye & Kiran Quinn.You’ve come this far… Why not say hello?
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Investment focus
- Software, Communities, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Klarytee — Klarytee is a SaaS platform that builds security into sensitive content to enable granular control wherever the data goes
- Odin — Community and investment tools for people building the future.
- TigerBeetle — TigerBeetle operates as a distributed financial accounting database for mission-critical safety and performance.
Vijay Shankar
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Winvesta — Winvesta is a UK based fin-tech company building a platform to enable Indians to invest globally.Even as technology has helped bring the world closer – accessing global investments for residents in capital controlled countries has not been easy. Winvesta is looking to change this, starting with India. Indian residents and NRIs can now open a USstock brokerage account and an international multi-currency bank account in as little as 10 minutes right from the Winvesta app. Whether one wants to invest in US stocks, buy and maintain an international real estate, or save for foreign education, Winvesta is making it easier to build a globally diversified portfolio.
- Wander — Wander is a platform that allows users to book smart homes for their next workcation, vacation, or anything in-between. Wander is a startup that builds infrastructure to experience the world. The company was founded by John Andrew Entwistle.
- Delight — Delight is a dating service where users only date one person at a time. Founded in 2022 and is based in San Francisco.
Damola Adegboyega is an Assembly Investors.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.
Vishal Agarwal serves as a Founder & CEO at ItsaCheckmate.
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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.
Karthik Ramakrishnan is an Engineering Executive @ Amazon Alexa.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Codingal — Codingal provides best free online coding classes & programming courses for kids and teens. Learn coding with expert instructors & start creating your own app, websites, much more.
- Grey — Open international bank accounts for free to receive and make foreign payments instantly or convert currencies - all in one place.
- Augmend — AI-augmented knowledge transfer across developers through a platform that captures and shares expertise.
Michael Vaughan is the Operating Partner at Stripes.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Brazil, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Flip — Transfer uang, top up e-wallet & kirim uang ke luar negeri lebih mudah dengan Flip. Bayar pulsa, listrik, BPJS, PDAM, dan pembayaran lainnya bisa lebih hemat.
- Trust Software — The corporate card, made social. Trust is the only corporate card that helps startups grow smarter, together. Learn more at trust.co
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
Cameron Hejazi
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Investment focus
- Financial Services
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- African Valuables Collective — CURATING AFRICAN NFT ASSETS
Kola Aina is an entrepreneur, technology operator and investor with vast experience working in Africa’s largest economic market. His prior entrepreneurial experience spans several sectors including venture capital, technology, media, agriculture, infrastructure, publishing and real estate. As an angel investor and while leading the early stageAfrican VC firm Ventures Platform. Venture Platform is a leading early stage African VC fund that provides founder friendly capital and support to early stage companies in a framework that is buoyed by corporate governance and hands-on support. Kola has lead investment in about 28 companies including Payments company; Paystack, Connectivity company; Tizeti, Healthcare company; MDaaS and the Agric-tech company; Thrive Agric.Kola, founded the enterprise technology company Emerging Platforms Limited, 9 years ago, quickly growing it to become one of the leading technology service delivery companies and leaders in the e-learning space in West Africa providing services to over 100,000 students. Emerging Platforms Limited is a software and technology firm that specializes in developing innovative technology solutions in education, national security and enterprise sectors.Prior to focusing on full time entrepreneurship, Kola worked in corporate finance, administration, corporate turn-around and strategy. He led strategy and finance for one of
the largest publishing companies in Nigeria up till 2009. Before that he worked in corporate finance proving financial analysis at Fifth Third Bank in the USA.Kola is a leader in the African startup and investing ecosystem, a Ted speaker and volunteers his time advising founders, speaking at events and serves on the Presidential Committee for Job Creation and Youth Employment as well as the Private Sector Advisory Group to the Presidency on Creativity and Technology. Kola studied Electrical Engineering and then secured a Master in Business Administration degree with a specialization in Finance from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He has received further education from Berkley University, Harvard University and the Lagos Business School.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Payourse — We're democratising access to crypto by providing tools that help businesses build user-friendly crypto products.
- Coinprofile — Coinprofile allows anyone, anywhere in the world send money to Africa. It's fast, seamless and free!
- CutStruct — Buy construction materials at the best prices on Cutstruct. Order directly for cement, steel & reinforcement, granite, sharp sand, electrical materials and construction labor on Cutstruct.
Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Education, InsurTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda
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.
- Earnipay — Gain access, consolidate, and manage all your financial needs in one place.
- 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.
Musty Mustapha - Co-Founder and CTO @ Kuda
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Investment focus
- Education, InsurTech, Insurance
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
Rene Reinsberg is the Co-Founder and President of Celo.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- ValuesCo — Socialstack is a community of creative leaders, creators, & developers co-creating community-driven economies that run on carbon negative blockchain infrastructure.
- Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
- Capsule Wallets — At Capsule, we thrive on challenging the design of products we use every day. In doing so, we hope to introduce you to a simpler way of living.
Adii Pienaar Founder at Conversio. Previously co-founded WooThemes / WooCommerce.
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- E-Commerce, Apps, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Buffer — Use Buffer to manage your social media so that you have more time for your business. Join 160,000+ small businesses today.
- Plasso — Plasso is a powerful all-in-one e-commerce platform. Setup recurring / subscription billing in minutes. Plasso manages your payments, customers and user authentication all automatically.Sell products, services, subscriptions, physical and digital goods. Send invoices. Collect donations. The list goes on.Do it all from your own websitewithout writing any code..
- Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
15 years of experience in private equity, venture capital, investment banking, corporate strategy, angel investing, and business development having an MBA from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA and being a CAIA Charterholder.
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- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Egypt, India
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- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
- Otida — Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives.
- 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.
Wemimo Abbey is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Esusu. He attended University of Cambridge.
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- SaaS, Legal, Advice
- Funding Round, Seed
- Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
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- Mirza — We help employers hire and retain working parents and caregivers. Our care now, pay later childcare loan helps you support your workforce
- Rent Small Small — Rent Small Small is a Nigeria-leading prop-tech platform providing a unique rental solution to Nigerians in order to improve the home-seekers rental experience and increase homeowner's occupancy rate.Our business model is unique as it allows verified tenants to find a property on the go, stay within budget, and pay rent flexibly. We providefirst-of-its-kind rent insurance for property owners against rent default, and unlike traditional agents, we don’t charge agency and legal fee.Our mandate is to provide suitable and affordable homes for home-seekers, influence the conception and birth of new homes to boost the livelihood and productivity of Nigerian youths, and help homeowners make their property rentable and profitable.
- Flourish Fi — Creating a banking experience that people love. Enable banks and credit unions to strengthen relationships with a rewards system, financial literacy and savings journey.
Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
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- Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
- Orb — A community-focused social app for people to connect, interact, and transact in their daily lives on web3 built with Lens Protocol.
- Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
Selma Ribica
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- Payments, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Nigeria
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- Klump — Use Klump to buy today, and pay in 4 equal instalments over 3 months! Businesses accept payments and increase conversion rate and revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
- Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
Tomiwa Olaosebikan
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
Ogundiran Kayode is an individual investor.
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- Finance, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
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- CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.
Oluchi Enebeli
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
Lish Lee Jung is an investor, entrepreneur, and writer.
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- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Seed
- Nigeria, United States
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- Repool — Hedge fund services expertise meets modern software. Repool provides award-winning hedge fund launch, administration, and backoffice services.
- Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
- Kuda — Kuda is a full service digital only bank with a mission to bank every African on the planet. Kuda was founded in 2019 by Babs Ogundeyi and Musty Mustapha and is Headquartered in London
Emmanuel Okeleji - Co-founder and Ceo @ Insidify
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- Financial Services
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
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- Anchor — Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way.
Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Japan, Spain
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- Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
- Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.
- Kuai Commerce — Kuai Commerce is a next-generation solution for ambitious brands looking to sell directly to Chinese Gen Z consumers through the power of social commerce. Our tech-enabled services provide market entry and brand acceleration options for emerging category-leaders who otherwise would find the complexity of China prohibitively challenging
Emerging market investor. Partner @ RaliCap.
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- Retail, Finance, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Pakistan, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Ronald Chagoury Jr. is the Vice Chairman of South Energyx Nigeria Limited, which is part of the Chagoury Group, a multinational business conglomerate based in Lagos, Nigeria. The company is currently working on Eko Atlantic, a new city construction project located on Victoria Island, adjacent to Lagos.
As the Vice Chairman, Ronald Chagoury Jr. hasremained a driving force behind some of the city’s key developments, including the Marina District of Eko Atlantic, an international hospital, international school and luxury shopping center. These features add value to not only investors but also the citizens of Nigeria, as the country represents one of the world’s last emerging growth markets. In that vein, Ronald Chagoury Jr. hopes to represent Africa in a positive, powerful light and demonstrate that Africa is a global power through innovative and prosperous projects like Eko Atlantic.
Ronald Chagoury Jr. has been heavily involved in this high-tech project since 2008 when the land off of the coast of Lagos began being reclaimed. Eko Atlantic is a large scale development on Victoria Island, that will solve the real estate shortage facing the surrounding areas, as well as improving the quality of life for residents put Nigeria at the forefront of technological innovation in Africa. Unlike other smart cities around the world, the Eko Atlantic project creates an entire city from scratch, making sure every process is environmentally safe.
The Eko Atlantic project had humble beginnings before it became a massive stretch of land, over 10 million square kilometers. Originally, the major concern was protecting Lagos from coastal erosion by creating a solid sea wall. For years, Lagos was subjected to dangerous storm surges that put the residents and property at risk. Over the course of a hundred years, the land that was originally off of the coast of Lagos has washed away and land depletion became a serious problem. As the seawall project was being planned by South Energyx Nigeria Limited, the idea came about that this project could actually be a positive catalyst for incredible change for not just Lagos, but Nigeria as a whole.
In order to ensure that the reclaimed land could withstand immense and powerful storms, research was completed by world-renowned experts on the best way to go about this undertaking. The land was created by pumping land from the seafloor to the surface, and a substantial sea wall, called the Great Wall of Lagos, was constructed eight and a half meters above sea level and was tested by the world-renowned Danish Hydraulic Research Centre. The massive structure will not only protect Lagos, it will also protect Eko Atlantic from dangerous currents and waves. This project of reclamation and sustainability is designed with the future in mind.
Ronald Chagoury Jr. is passionate about being a part of the Eko Atlantic project, which will provide a great service to the people of Nigeria by giving the growing middle class a place to work and live. The project will serve as a way to increase the available housing options for the people of Lagos, as there is currently a shortage of housing for the residents due to a rapidly increasing population. Current numbers show that the housing market only represents 0.5% of the Nigerian GDP, which equals to about $3 billion in mortgages per year. In contrast, the housing market contributes to nearly 22% of their national GDP, equaling $77 billion per year. The Eko Atlantic project will inadvertently affect these numbers in a positive way and will increase the availability of housing, not only to current residents but also for those choosing to move to the country. Eko Atlantic will also serve to provide a greener way of life for those who live and work in the city.
Lagos is a major economic player in the Nigerian economy, serving as the backbone for manufacturing, agriculture, banking, mining, telecom, and the energy industry. Ronald Chagoury Jr., alongside the Chagoury Group, which aims to facilitate growth and expansion in Africa (particularly Nigeria), supports numerous industries such as those depicted above because of the influence of the Nigerian economy. The infrastructure of Lagos, although has improved in recent years, still has a way to go. With investments in the Eko Atlantic city, there is no reason that the economy will improve substantially, while also improving the economies of neighboring countries and even neighboring continents like Europe.
Ronald Chagoury Jr. and South Energyx Nigeria Limited have been working with the Nigerian government on plans to improve the public transportation that is available in the country. Projects like the new railway and ferry system will work alongside the Eko Atlantic project, which is completely privately funded.
Ronald Chagoury Jr. and his family have been in Nigeria for more than 40 years, allowing them to gain a deep understanding of how the country has evolved. Helping Lagos become a financial center for Sub-Saharan Africa, and eventually, the continent was a natural fit for the Chagoury Group.
At their core, the Chagoury Group aims to dispel myths about Africa’s limitations when it comes to economic and structural growth. Ronald Chagoury Jr., at the head of the Eko Atlantic project, hopes that this new green city and all of its parts serve to support that goal.
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- Financial Services
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
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- African Valuables Collective — CURATING AFRICAN NFT ASSETS
Peter Kisadha - Founder and CEO @ Digest Africa
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
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- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
Jim Chu is the Founder & CEO at Untapped Global.
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Investment focus
- Solar, Water, Energy
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Uganda, Nigeria
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- 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.
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