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Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Nigeria

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Fintech startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fintech companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Nigeria

Investor FinTech Nigeria investments
Olugbenga Agboola 6
Olugbenga Agboola 6
Babs Ogundeyi 5
Michael Seibel 4
Olumide Soyombo 4
Allen and Ollys International Limited - 3
Idris Ayodeji Bello 3
Youcef Es-skouri 3
Chris Adelsbach 3
Tayo Oviosu 3
Alan Rutledge 2
Sahil Lavingia 2
Cristina Santin 2
Brandon Krieg 2
Opeyemi Awoyemi 2
Abdul Hassan 2
Dale Mathias 2
Oliver Jung 2
Ham Serunjogi 2
Ed Robinson 2
Raffael Johnen 2
Bunmi Akinyemiju 2
Karim Atiyeh 2
Isaac Ewaleifoh 1
Oluchi Enebeli 1
Tomiwa Olaosebikan 1
Ogundiran Kayode 1
Honey Ogundeyi 1
Nehikhare Igbinijesu 1
Selma Ribica 1
Musty Mustapha 1
Olumide Ogunsanwo 1
Sandeep Nailwal 1
Kyane Kassiri 1
Richmond Bassey 1
Kola Aina 1
Sajid Rahman 1
Samir Goel 1
James Park 1
Arash Ferdowsi 1
Adii Pienaar 1
Dare Okoudjou 1
Ali Rampurwala 1
Tristan Walker 1
Wemimo Abbey 1
Vijay Shankar 1
Will Neale 1
Damola Adegboyega 1
Lish Lee Jung 1
Emmanuel Okeleji 1
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Olugbenga Agboola Angel
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.
Olugbenga Agboola Angel
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.
Babs Ogundeyi Angel · Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
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.
Michael Seibel Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • 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.
Olumide Soyombo Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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.
Allen and Ollys International Limited - Angel
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.
Idris Ayodeji Bello Angel
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.
Youcef Es-skouri Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
Chris Adelsbach Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Tayo Oviosu Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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.
Alan Rutledge Angel · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Sahil Lavingia Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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.
Cristina Santin Angel
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.
Brandon Krieg Angel · New York, New York, United States
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.
Opeyemi Awoyemi Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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.
Abdul Hassan Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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.
Dale Mathias Angel
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.
Oliver Jung Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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 AI is leading the next Industrial Revolution, creating advanced AI agent digital workers, called Artisans.
  • Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
Ham Serunjogi Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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.
Ed Robinson Angel · New York, New York, United States
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.
Raffael Johnen Angel · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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
Portfolio highlights
  • Kippa — ## Build Setup
  • Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
  • Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
Bunmi Akinyemiju Angel
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.
Karim Atiyeh Angel · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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, Financial Services
  • 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.
  • Meanwhile — Licensed and regulated life insurance in Bitcoin. Leverage the value of crypto today and pass it to the next generation without passing on a huge tax burden.
Isaac Ewaleifoh Angel · New York, New York, United States
Isaac Ewaleifoh is an Angel Investor | SDGs Ambassador.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
  • Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
  • CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.
Oluchi Enebeli Angel
Oluchi Enebeli
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
Tomiwa Olaosebikan Angel
Tomiwa Olaosebikan
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
Ogundiran Kayode Angel
Ogundiran Kayode is an individual investor.
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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.
Honey Ogundeyi Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Honey Ogundeyi - Founder and CEO @ Edukoya
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Investment focus
  • Financial, Other, Payments
  • Pre-Seed
  • 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.
  • Bitmama — Bitmama enables traders to buy and sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, cUSD, Celo and other digital assets in Africa via its Exchange and Api services. Users can create their own wallets and start buying or selling digital currencies by connecting with their bank accounts, credit or debit cards and mobile money accounts.
Nehikhare Igbinijesu Angel
Nehikhare Igbinijesu
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
Selma Ribica Angel
Selma Ribica
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Investment focus
  • Payments, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, Nigeria
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.
Musty Mustapha Angel
Musty Mustapha - Co-Founder and CTO @ Kuda
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Investment focus
  • Education, InsurTech, Insurance
  • Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria
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.
Olumide Ogunsanwo Angel · Miami, Florida, United States
Olumide Ogunsanwo is a Investor (Adamantium fund -> African startups), Podcaster (Afrobility) & Advisor (Google Bizops) | Oxford, MIT & McKinsey alum.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Financial Services
  • Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
  • CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.
Sandeep Nailwal Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 24 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Kyane Kassiri Angel
Emerging market investor. Partner @ RaliCap.
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Finance, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Nigeria, Pakistan, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Kippa — ## Build Setup
  • Simulon — Studio-quality VFX on a mobile. Sign up to the Simulon beta.
  • Markaz Technologies — Markaz provides an online reselling platform to help anyone in Pakistan source wholesale products from across the country and sell with a profit through their own social media stores on WhatsApp and Facebook without investing any money, from the comfort of their home.Markaz is on a mission to supercharge the rails of ecommerce and make itaccessible to masses in Pakistan by enabling and empowering micro-entrepreneurs.
Richmond Bassey Angel · Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
Richmond Bassey is the Co-founder and CEO at Bamboo. He served as the Chief Of Staff for Helium Health prior to that.
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Investment focus
  • Payments, Financial Services
  • Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria
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.
Kola Aina Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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.
Sajid Rahman Angel · Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • India, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
  • EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
  • 10 Minute School — 10 Minute School is the largest online educational platform in Bangladesh. Through our website, app, and social media, more than 10 Million+ students are accessing quality education each day to accelerate their learning.
Samir Goel Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Samir is a social entrepreneur, writer, and connector committed to bridging the public and private sectors by bringing together diverse communities to eliminate the access gap.In 2015, Samir Co-Founded Esusu, a platform designed to empower users to better save, access capital, and build credit through community savings. Prior to Esusu, SamirCo-Founded Transfernation, a nationally recognized 501(c)3 non-profit which uses technology to ensure excess food from events goes toward underserved communities across New York City. To-date Transfernation has rescued over 300,000 thousand pounds of food and impacted 250,000 lives. For his entrepreneurial endeavors Samir has been recognized as a WEF Global Shaper, Global Good Fund Fellow, Dalai Lama Fellow, Resolution Fellow and was the recipient of the Jefferson Awards Foundation National Public Service Award.In addition to his work as a social entrepreneur, Samir has had the opportunity to build a robust skillset over his time at LinkedIn working across 5 offices in Customer Success Consulting, Talent Acquisition, and Sales Strategy & Operations focused on Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Previously Samir worked at The United Nations, Venture for America, and various non-profits in the New York City areaSamir is an avid writer and contributes for LinkedIn, The Daily Muse, Influencive, Mogul, and Quartz. Samir supplements his entrepreneurship and writing with public speaking engagements, which have ranged from The United Nations to the Clinton Global Initiative's Final Annual Meeting.Samir received his Bachelor's of Science from New York University's Stern School of Business. Samir enjoy's baking & cooking, staying active, travel, writing, and spending time with his family and 4 younger siblings.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Legal, Advice
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
James Park Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
James is our Co-founder and has served as our Chairman since May 2015, as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and as our President and CEO since September 2007. Previously, James served as a Director of Product Development at CNET Networks, as the President and a Co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, Inc. (an online photo-sharing companyacquired by CNET Networks in April 2005). He was also CTO and Co-Founder of Epesi Technologies, Inc., a software company. James attended Harvard College where he studied Computer Science. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder, President, and CEO.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Chile
Portfolio highlights
  • Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
  • HoyTrabajas — We are a C.Vs information exchange platform for candidates, employers, and recruiters, that get people access to low-skilled jobs in the Latin-American markets, enables recruiters to share job-seekers and job openings in real-time, and supports SMEs in the recruiting of their low-skilled jobs.
  • Positive Food Co. — Delicious, fresh food
Arash Ferdowsi Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 23 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Artie — Leverage change data capture to replicate data from databases to your data warehouse or data lake with low latency and no impact to database performance.
  • 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.
  • PawCo Foods — The new generation of healthy and delicious dog food made from plant-based meat. Support earth, animal welfare, and your dog's health!
Adii Pienaar Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Adii Pienaar Founder at Conversio. Previously co-founded WooThemes / WooCommerce.
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Investment focus
  • 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.
Dare Okoudjou Angel · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Dare Okoudjou is the Founder and CEO of MFS Africa, a leading Pan-African Fintech company, operating the largest digital payments hub on the continent. The MFS Hub is connected to 170 million mobile wallets in Sub-Saharan Africa offering unparalleled reach into the growing African middle class. The company allows merchants, banks, mobile operatorsand money transfer companies to take advantage of the unique ubiquity of mobile wallets as a safe, convenient, and cost-effective transaction channel. MFS Africa works in close partnership with players across the ecosystem to bring simple and secure mobile financial services to un- and under-banked customers. MFS Africa was recently named by the international business magazine Fast Company as one of Africa’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies. Prior to founding MFS, Dare worked at MTN Group, where he developed its mobile payment strategy and led its implementation across the company’s operations in 21 countries throughout Africa and the Middle East. He began his career as a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Paris. He has an MSc in Telecom Engineering from ENST-Paris and an MBA from INSEAD.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Insurance, Credit
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Canada, Germany, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • maviance — Maviance is a German-based consulting (business and IT) and software development company that develops industry-specific for web and mobile applications for businesses and governments. It creates sustainable and customized solutions to meet the requirements of customers by combining its industry experience with solution-oriented skills of businessre-design, concept, project management, programming, and testing.Our commitment to excellence and sustainability is evident in suite of innovative and scalable smart mobile enterprise applications in industries like Microfinance, Metering, Insurance and Sales Automation. Each of our applications consists of a web-based back office server, mobile clients and APIs for SMS, mobile billing, mobile payment and integration into existing systems. Maviance serves clients in the financial services, telecommunications and public sectors, increasing productivity, reducing costs and improving their management capabilities. Founded in 2008, maviance GmbH is headquartered in Leipzig, Germany.
  • Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
  • Payday — Send and receive money globally. Create virtual Mastercards that work anywhere online.
Ali Rampurwala Angel
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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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Egypt, India
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Tristan Walker Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Tristan Walker is the Founder and CEO Walker and Company Brands. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stony Brook University.
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Investment focus
  • Beauty, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • United States, Nigeria
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.
  • Onboard AI — Tabnam is an AI-powered product research tool that scrapes the internet for customer experience data about a product to help shoppers make more informed decisions.
  • AddGlow — AddGlow foster on-site community to increase retention.
Wemimo Abbey Angel · New York, New York, United States
Wemimo Abbey is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Esusu. He attended University of Cambridge.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Legal, Advice
  • Funding Round, Seed
  • Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Vijay Shankar Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 14 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Will Neale Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Japan, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • 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
Damola Adegboyega Angel
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.
Lish Lee Jung Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Lish Lee Jung is an investor, entrepreneur, and writer.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
  • Seed
  • Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Repool — Repool is the leader in hedge fund software for emerging managers. Enable easy hedge fund launch, management, and back office 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 Angel
Emmanuel Okeleji - Co-founder and Ceo @ Insidify
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services
  • Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
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