Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Nigeria (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
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8 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $625k–$7.5M |
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Babs Ogundeyi
Angel
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6 | Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $780k–$6M |
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Olumide Soyombo
Angel
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5 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $260k–$2.1M |
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Michael Seibel
Angel
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4 | United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $500k–$21M |
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Chris Adelsbach
Angel
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4 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $120k–$19M |
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Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $425k–$5.1M |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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3 | United States, Nigeria, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $12k–$5M |
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Ham Serunjogi
Angel
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile Apps | $25k–$5.3M |
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Philippe Teixeira da Mota
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $125k–$35M |
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Tayo Oviosu
Angel
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3 | Nigeria, Brazil, United States | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, SaaS, Credit | $1.4M–$3.6M |
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Allen and Ollys International Limited -
Angel
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3 | Nigeria | Seed, Convertible Note | FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain | $1k–$4k |
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Youcef Es-skouri
Angel
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3 | United States, France, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence | $1M–$46M |
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Abdul Hassan
Angel
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3 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | $780k–$1.3M |
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Opeyemi Awoyemi
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Payments, Software, InsurTech | $200k–$4M |
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Haresh Aswani
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Banking, Financial Services | $1M–$1.6M |
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Dale Mathias
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, The Netherlands | Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | |
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Victoria van Lennep
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, France, Spain | Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, EdTech | $686k–$23M |
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Shola Akinlade
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Education, Insurance | $192k–$4M |
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Oliver Jung
Angel
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2 | United States, Germany, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet | $770k–$160M |
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Ed Robinson
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Insurance, InsurTech | $3.5M–$28M |
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Raffael Johnen
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, Germany, Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Payments, Financial Services | $1.6M–$20M |
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Odun Eweniyi
Angel
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2 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | Payments, SaaS, FinTech | $670k–$3.7M |
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Adam Meghji
Angel
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2 | Canada, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Internet, Lifestyle | |
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Cristina Santin
Angel
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2 | Nigeria | Seed | FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain | $1k–$2k |
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Alan Rutledge
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $600k–$9.5M |
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Karim Atiyeh
Angel
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2 | United States, Brazil, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $2.2M–$250M |
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Bunmi Akinyemiju
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $10k–$1.5M |
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Sahil Lavingia
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $750k–$30M |
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Vijay Shankar
Angel
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2 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series C | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $10k–$50M |
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Gbite Oduneye
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care | $43k–$10M |
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Brandon Krieg
Angel
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2 | Nigeria, United States | Pre-Seed, Series B, Seed | Insurance, FinTech, InsurTech | $3.5M–$28M |
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Honey Ogundeyi
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, United States | Pre-Seed | Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum | |
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Tunji Banwo
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services | |
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Youcef Oudjidane
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | |
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Jim Chu
Angel
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1 | United States, Uganda, Nigeria | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Solar, Water, Energy | |
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Tom Stafford
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Germany, India | Series A, Series B, Series C | Financial, Software, Commerce/Shopping | |
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Yuzuru Honda
Angel
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1 | Japan, Nigeria, Singapore | Seed, Angel | SNS, Internet, Software | |
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Isaac Ewaleifoh
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, United States | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Finance, InsurTech | |
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Selma Ribica
Angel
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | Payments, Software, Health Care | |
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Rene Reinsberg
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software | |
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Kola Aina
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Internet | |
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Arash Ferdowsi
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | |
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Adii Pienaar
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria | Seed | E-Commerce, Apps, FinTech | |
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Maijid Moujaled
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Gaming, Mobile | $3M–$5.3M |
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Brett Kopf
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | B2B, FinTech, Mobile Payments | |
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Gregory Rockson
Angel
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1 | Kenya, Germany, Nigeria | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | |
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Ross Lipson
Angel
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1 | United States, Mexico, India | Seed, Series A | Logistics, E-Commerce, Internet | $2M–$30M |
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Justin Mateen
Angel
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1 | United States, Mexico, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Health Care | $400k–$26M |
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Edward Suh
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam | Seed, Series A, Series B | Mobile Apps, FinTech, Financial Services | $780k–$30M |
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Walid Aradi
Angel
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1 | India, United States, Nigeria | Seed, Angel, Series A | Information Technology, Internet, Health Care | $150k–$4M |
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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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- tushop — Shop wholesale groceries, market fresh produce, local brands, and affordable preloved finds on Tushop. Secure checkout, friendly support and fast 90 minute delivery across Nairobi.
- 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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $780k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- Maplerad — Global payment infrastructure for businesses.
Olumide Soyombo is the Co-Founder of Bluechip Technologies. Olumide Soyombo attended Aston University.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.3M; Angel $260k–$1M; Pre-Seed $260k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mono — Mono helps businesses link their customers accounts for financial data, bank payments and identity verification across Africa.
- Spleet — Fintech Spleet Provides Tenant verification, Rent collection solutions for landlords and rent financing (Rent now, pay later) for Tenants
- 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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 205
- Round size: Seed $500k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$500k; Series A $5.9M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kira — The easiest way for non-fintech enterprises to launch AI-powered, stablecoin-based financial products. Through a unified API platform, Kira enables businesses to embed remittances, payroll, wallets, and real-time cross-border payments.
- Recall.ai — Recall.ai provides a single API for meeting bots on every platform like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more.
- Arena — Arena accelerates testing, debugging, and optimization for the world’s most advanced hardware. Atlas is an AI hardware engineer grounded in applied physics with an understanding of the real-world environment.
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 265
- Round size: Seed $120k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.3M; Series A $4.4M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bourn — Bourn's technology is designed to automate cash flow management, offering SMEs fast access to capital.
- Alfa AI — Alfa AI is a recruitment technology company specializing in AI-driven hiring solutions.
- Emblematic — The first AI-driven Agentic Automation platform, designed to fully automate and enhance the accuracy of Finance Operations, including Bookkeeping, IFRS/GAAP Compliance, Reconciliations, and more.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $700k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $425k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ScholarX — ScholarX enables you to study a variety of skills online, receive money for your education, upskill your employees, and expand your business. The company provides low-income Africans with digital and affordable education.
- TORA Africa — TORA Africa an academy that recruits, trains, verifies, insures and provides background-checked drivers for individuals and businesses.
- Bata Shoe Organization — Discover a diverse selection of stylish footwear and accessories for the entire family at Bata's online store. From athletic sneakers to elegant designs, find the latest trends and comfortable options in one place. Shop now to experience unmatched style and comfort with our extensive collection.
Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 888
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $12k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Book Your Own — Book Your Own is building an integrated travel ecosystem designed to unify India’s fragmented travel market.
- UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
- Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
Ham Kakembo Serunjogi is based out of San Francisco, California and is the a Co-founder and CEO at Chipper Cash. Ham previously worked at Facebook as a Global Accountant. Ham Kakembo Serunjogi attended the Grinnell College. Ham Kakembo Serunjogi has been names as one of the honorees on the Forbes 30 Under 30.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $25k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $240k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
- CreditChek — Africa's #1 credit intelligence platform. Access credit bureau API, bank statement analysis, BVN/KYC verification & direct debit for lenders in Nigeria, Kenya & Uganda. Trusted by 100+ businesses.
- Hisa Inc — Seamless trading, and Borderless investment for Africa.
Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$17M; Pre-Seed $125k–$7.4M; Series A $9M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Palm — Palm specializes in AI-powered treasury software designed to optimize financial operations for businesses. The platform offers solutions for generating accurate cash forecasts quickly and managing company funds efficiently. Palm's technology streamlines automated workflows for forecasting and cash movement, ensuring enterprise-grade securityand controls. The company focuses on addressing treasury challenges with innovative solutions, supported by a team with expertise in treasury and fintech. Palm's services are aimed at improving financial decision-making and operational efficiency for its clients.
- 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 — Blockchain compliance solutions for the financial sector.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, SaaS, Credit
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Brazil, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RELAYTO AI Regulated Content Platform — RELAYTO converts your PDFs & presentations to interactive web experiences with instant branding, analytics & more
- 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.
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- Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1k–$4k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $1M–$9.8M; Series A $6.2M–$46M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lakera — Lakera Guard empowers organizations to build GenAI applications without worrying about prompt injections, data loss, harmful content, and other LLM risks. Powered by the world's most advanced AI threat intelligence.
- Tana — Tana is an agentic meeting platform. Work gets done in the meeting, not after. Agents create documents, file issues, and update your context graph while you talk. And each meeting makes future meetings smarter.
- Default — The command center for modern sales teams.
Abdul Hassan
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $780k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
- Klump — Use Klump to buy now and pay later in instalments for up to 12 months! Businesses accept payments, increase conversion rates, and boost 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.
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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- Industry: Payments, Software, InsurTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Pre-Seed $200k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Klump — Use Klump to buy now and pay later in instalments for up to 12 months! Businesses accept payments, increase conversion rates, and boost 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.
Haresh Aswani is Managing Director -Africa at Tolaram Group. He attended University of Houston during 1982-1984.
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- Industry: FinTech, Banking, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1M–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Teesas — Teesas provides a platform where educators and learners engage seamlessly and efficiently, with the aim of facilitating a fun and effective learning experience via the deployment of technology and the adoption of local culture and dialects.
- OnePipe — OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
- Kudimoney — Kuda is the digital bank built for Nigerians, fully licensed by the CBN. Zero maintenance fees, free transfers, and automatic savings. Join Kuda today!
Dale Mathias
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kosa — Domain name KOSA.ai is a powerful tech-driven brand with a sleek, modern appeal. The name KOSA conveys a sense of intelligence and sophistication, making it perfect for AI-focused startups or businesses in the technology sector. As a short,
- 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.
Victoria van Lennep - Co-Founder @ Lendable
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, EdTech
- Stage:Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, France, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $2M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $686k–$2M; Series A $16M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoodCourse — GoodCourse is where TikTok-style content meets expert-made learning paths - to build safer and bias-free cultures.
- Virgil — Virgil provides a financial solution to assist individuals in purchasing a home. For the buyer, Virgil is a dormant partner: in exchange for an investment of 10% of the price, Virgil buys 15% of the apartment and is paid at the time of resale, at the latest 10 years after the purchase. Virgil allows young working people to become owners on average7 years earlier than the average first-time buyer, i.e. as much rent saved. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.
- 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 !
Shola Akinlade s based out of Sunnyvale, California and currently works as the CEO for Paystack.
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- Industry: FinTech, Education, Insurance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$4M; Pre-Seed $192k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
- Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $770k–$10M; Series A $4.4M–$25M; Series B $19M–$160M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tzafon — Tzafon's vision is to expand the lightcone of consciousness by expanding the frontiers of machine intelligence.
- Corgi Insurance — Corgi Insurance Services, Inc. ("Corgi") is an American technology company that operates an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered insurance carrier based in San Francisco, California. Corgi Insurance develops and operates a fully integrated insurance stack using AI agents to automate traditional carrier operations, becoming the world’sfirst “AI insurance company.” The company owns multiple subsidiaries operating under a dog-themed naming convention.
- 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.
Ed Robison is a Co-Founder of Stash. He attended the University of Sydney from 2002 to 2004.
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- Industry: FinTech, Insurance, InsurTech
- Stage:Series B, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Pre-Seed $3.5M–$4M; Series B $18M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
- Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
- Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Germany, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$14M; Pre-Seed $3.2M–$3.5M; Series A $15M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Weel — Weel is the all-in-one platform for finance teams. Issue smart corporate cards, automate accounts payable, and control company spend, all in one place.
- Weel — Weel is the all-in-one platform for finance teams. Issue smart corporate cards, automate accounts payable, and control company spend, all in one place.
- Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
Odun Eweniyi
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- Industry: Payments, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Pre-Seed $670k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sudo — Sudo is an open API platform that enables businesses to embed powerful financial features into their products. Build in minutes, launch in days.
- Venco Platforms — Venco automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.
Adam Meghji leads engineering and development efforts at Ethos. Adam has dedicated his career to creating technology that transforms how we work and play. His love for technology developed quickly as a curious child in the early days of the Internet, and his passion to create has never slowed since. He has held leadership roles at techorganizations of all sizes, from startup, to scale-up, to Fortune 500. In 2011, Adam co-founded Universe.com (acq: Ticketmaster/Live Nation), a DIY ticketing platform, where he served as CTO and developed the concept → launch → growth ➝ acquisition in 2015. Prior to that, he was instrumental in the early launch of Unata, a grocery shopping experience of the future (acq: Instacart). Earlier, Adam lead engineering and roll-out of the world’s first independent car-sharing platform at Metavera (acq: Enterprise Rent-A-Car), including launching Enterprise Car Share, and Google’s very first pilot project involving vehicles. Today, he is actively involved in the Canadian startup scene as both a mentor at Techstars and investor at Real Ventures.
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- Industry: SaaS, Internet, Lifestyle
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Freshline — Freshline's B2B e-commerce platform makes receiving, managing, and fulfilling orders 10x more efficient for food wholesalers and distributors.
- Guild — Guild is the platform for communities. Attend an Event, catch a Presentation, and follow a Network!
- Rent Small Small — New Zealand's Biggest most reliable Online Store for all your Phone Parts needs! Fast shipping, NZ owned and Operated and here to help. Shop Now!
Cristina Santin
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- Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1k–$2k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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.
Alan Rutledge
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $600k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cekura AI — Cekura AI is an AI based Software Development firm offering Developer Tool to observe and test AI voice agents.
- Mentra — Exploring ideas with @Mentraglass. Follow for future updates.
- Cosmoserve Space — Cosmoserve Space is developing autonomous robotic spacecraft to mitigate the rapidly growing problem of orbital debris.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$9.8M; Series A $8.5M–$88M; Series B $43M–$250M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 1001 AI — 1001 is the AI-powered intelligence layer helping enterprises transform decisions, orchestrate actions, and accelerate outcomes.
- Augustus — Building the clearing bank for the AI era
- Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $300k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $10k–$425k
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $1M–$9M; Pre-Seed $750k–$2M; Series A $6M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BackerKit — BackerKit simplifies the post-campaign fulfillment process by helping project creators handle all the realities of crowdfunding. It allows its clients to survey, collect data, accept pre-orders, and process pledges for fulfillment. BackerKit was founded in 2012 by Rosanna Yau and Maxwell Salzberg and is based in San Francisco, California.
- Monumental Labs — Monumental Labs is building a robot stone-sculpting factory to unleash a renaissance. Our robot artisans complete commissions in days that previously took months, with all the precision of traditional sculpting, at a fraction of the cost.
- PierSight Space — PierSight is building a constellation of SAR satellites to provide persistent monitoring for the maritime industry.
Vijay Shankar
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $10k–$50M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Winvesta — Receive international payments in India from 180+ countries. Save up to 80% in collection costs.
- Wander — Never book a bad vacation home again. Every Wander comes with hotel-grade amenities, inspiring views, pristine cleaning and 24/7 concierge service.
- Delight — Delight is a dating service where users only date one person at a time. Founded in 2022 and is based in San Francisco.
Gbite Oduneye is the Founder and Managing Partner of ODBA. He attended UWE Bristol and Said Business School, University of Oxford.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $200k–$10M; Pre-Seed $43k–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EATO — From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.
- Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
- Treepz — Treepz is using technology to help people move efficiently in Africa. Be it for daily, inter-city or corporate commutes, users can book predictable, reliable and comfortable trips through a world-class, demand-responsive app all at the tap of a button.Treepz was founded in 2019 and operates in 4 African countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Ugandaand Kenya. It is headquartered in Ontario, Canada.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Insurance, FinTech, InsurTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $3.5M–$4M; Series B $28M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
- Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
- Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
Honey Ogundeyi - Founder and CEO @ Edukoya
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- Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- 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.
As a Lead Consultant at PROSHAP Limited, I have over 10 years of experience in strategy, project management, risk management, management consulting, and business analysis. I hold several credentials, including PMP, Six Sigma Yellow Belt, and M_o_R Foundation, that demonstrate my proficiency and expertise in these domains.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Ewalletly — At Ewalletly, we’re revolutionizing financial accessibility and convenience for individuals and businesses across Africa. Our platform provides an all-in-one digital wallet solution that integrates seamless e-commerce, crowdfunding, employee loans, and smart logistics through smart lockers.We aim to bridge the gap between traditional banking andmodern financial solutions by offering features like virtual dollar cards, crowdfunding for startups, and even travel integrations—making it easier for users to manage finances, grow their business, and achieve financial independence.
Youcef Oudjidane is the Founder and Managing Partner of BYLD and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Elevate (YC W22).
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- Next Gen Foods — Next Gen Foods is a food-tech startup that offers plant-based meat products. They use plants to create a delicious and satisfying meat experience that will make forget animal meat even exists.
Jim Chu is the Founder & CEO at Untapped Global.
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- Industry: Solar, Water, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Uganda, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Tom is a Co-Founder at DST Global, an internet-focused investment firm with a global focus.
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- Industry: Financial, Software, Commerce/Shopping
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- Surfboard — Homepage of Surfboard; A simpler, smarter and fairer customer experience team scheduling software platform.
- Tesseract Energy — Tesseract offers commission-free energy; 10x cheaper; 10x better, and 100 percent renewable energy.
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
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- Industry: SNS, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
- 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.
Isaac Ewaleifoh is an Angel Investor | SDGs Ambassador.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, InsurTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Fleri — Better healthcare for your family back home - Give your loved ones back home in Africa the gift of a better life with a healthcare coverage plan that works.
- Famasi — Find, Order & Refill medications across 1000+ pharmacies in Nigeria. Delivered in 1 hour. Compare prices, get the best offers, and enjoy free monthly delivery on recurring orders.
- CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.
Selma Ribica
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- Industry: Payments, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
Rene Reinsberg is the Co-Founder and President of Celo.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- ValuesCo — Socialstack is a community of creative leaders, creators, & developers co-creating community-driven economies that run on carbon negative blockchain infrastructure.
- Fountain — Fountain operates in the finance industry, providing a wallet platform specifically designed for teams. The platform allows users to create permission-controlled wallets in a matter of seconds, offering a centralized location for managing all transactions and treasury. In addition to its wallet services, Fountain also offers a unique way to enjoypodcasts, further diversifying its product offerings. With a team of six, Fountain continues to innovate in the realm of finance and entertainment.
- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Partna — We're democratising access to crypto by providing tools that help businesses build user-friendly crypto products.
- Coinprofile — Coinprofile allows anyone, anywhere in the world send money to Africa. It's fast, seamless and free!
- CutStruct — We build apps for building projects. Our apps are helping builders extend the value of every dollar and increasing the confidence of ordinary people to build.
Arash Ferdowsi is the Co-Founder & CTO at Dropbox. After studying at MIT, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox with Drew Houston. Dropbox was a TechCrunch50 finalist in 2008.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 82
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Onyx — The open-source AI enterprise search platform that helps teams find information across all company data.
- BenchFlow — Largest benchmark hub
- Alinea — Alinea offers a social investing platform for crypto, stocks and playlists. We offer fractional investing, $0 commission on investments, and a minimum as low as $1.
Adii Pienaar Founder at Conversio. Previously co-founded WooThemes / WooCommerce.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, FinTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Buffer — Use Buffer to manage your social media so that you can create and share your content everywhere, consistently. Try our forever free plan or upgrade for more.
- 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.
Maijid Moujaled is a co-founder and president at Chipper Cash.
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- Industry: FinTech, Gaming, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $3M–$5.3M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
- Rivy — Access flexible financing for solar energy projects with Rivy. Power homes, businesses, and communities with clean, affordable energy.
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
Brett Kopf
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- Industry: B2B, FinTech, Mobile Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
Gregory Rockson is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder & CEO of mPharma. Gregory previously worked at Six Days of Peace as a Founder. Gregory Rockson attended the University of Ghana.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Germany, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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.
- COMESO GmbH — COMESO exists to make healthcare access in Africa fair, transparent, and reliable. We build digital payment infrastructure that allows families both abroad and within their home countries to directly pay for medical services for their loved ones. Our mission is to ensure that every payment sent for health, whether from across the world or acrosstown, reaches hospitals and clinics in full, improving lives and strengthening local health systems.We combine financial technology with community-based healthcare delivery, COMESO enables the domestication of payments from afar, turning everyday financial support into a trusted channel for health access. Our goal is to reduce out-of-pocket spending, empower underserved families, and create a scalable model for inclusive health financing across emerging markets.
- Caantin — Kibanda Topup digitizes the supply for micro, small and medium-sized restaurants. Kibanda Topup allows restaurant owners to order inventory such as grains, poultry, beverages, and beef by app through a simple SMS and get the orders the next day.
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.
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- Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Series A $18M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Klinic —
- 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
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.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 144
- Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3.9M; Series A $6.8M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
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Edward Suh
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $780k–$9.8M; Series A $4.7M–$30M; Series B $8M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
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.
Entrepreneur, investor. Advising global tech companies navigate through MENA+ regulatory environments, market entry and scaling
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- Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: India, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $150k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.
- Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
- Termii — Prevent transactions like logins, payments, checkouts, fraud alerts, and OTPs from failing using AI. Built for banks, fintechs and modern enterprises.
FinTech Angel investor funding in Nigeria at a glance
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